Successive Quotes

119 Successive quotes by 105 unique authors

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
They [INTJs] are likely, however, to organize themselves out of a job. They cannot continually reorganize the same thing, and a finished product has no… — Isabel Briggs Myers
The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots and heroes that… — James Abourezk
But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about… — Lafcadio Hearn
Because parents are transients in the maternity care system, there is little cumulative birth experience over successive generations of mothers. Women giving birth don't make… — Elizabeth Noble
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful… — Charles Peguy
A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long… — Ambrose Bierce
One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation. — Fred Rogers
The king shall singly deliberate over secret matters; for ministers have their own ministers, and these latter some of their own; this kind of successive… — Chanakya
Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road… — Franz Liszt
Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at… — Bertrand Russell

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