Successive Quotes
119 quotes by 105 authors
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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which…
— Henri Bergson
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Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
— Hugo Black
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Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and…
— Jacques Monod
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Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting…
— George Eliot
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Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances…
— Marcel Proust
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Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences,…
— Roderick Murchison
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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen,…
— Gordon Allport
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Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the…
— Charles Lyell
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There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to…
— Charles Lyell
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We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive periods…
— Charles Darwin
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive.…
— Victor Hugo
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So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering…
— Charles Lyell
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Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science,…
— James Dwight Dana
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You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for…
— Barack Obama
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The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.
— William Buckland
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The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals…
— Nadia Boulanger
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The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in the…
— Roderick Murchison
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The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so…
— Kevin Rudd
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Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.
— Karl Popper
Who Wrote These Successive Quotes
105 authors contributed a total of 119 Successive Quotes, led by these top contributors: