Successive Quotes

119 quotes by 105 authors

The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the… — Richard Owen
The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in… — Richard Dawkins
Europeâ€™s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as… — Jean Monnet
And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the… — John Dryden
The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs… — Wendell Phillips
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive… — Alfred North Whitehead
When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of… — Daniel Gilbert
The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or… — Charles Darwin
The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive… — Francois Jacob
Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much… — Arthur Koestler
This is real freedom-the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present. — Deepak Chopra
Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence. — Joseph Story
...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this,… — James Joseph Sylvester
At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years. — Wietse Venema
Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and… — Arnold J. Toynbee
Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one… — Eckhart Tolle
Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. — J. B. Priestley
Here is a definition which correctly reflects the course of thought and action of a grandmaster: - The plan in a game of chess is… — Alexander Kotov
The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each successive… — Avro Manhattan
For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to… — Henry John Stephen Smith

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