"Living things have no inertia, and tend to…" — Thomas Huxley
"Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium."
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195 Quotes by Thomas Huxley
Thomas Huxley has 195 quotes on this site.
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That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of…
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What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as…
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For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold…
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There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it…
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a…
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Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so…
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That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is…
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Veracity is the heart of morality.
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If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining…
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
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As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room…
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Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts…
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More Equilibrium Quotes
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to…
— Jean Baudrillard
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime…
— Albert Camus
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For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of…
— Albert Claude
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To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
— Eric Hoffer
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The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific…
— John Dewey
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The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is…
— Mark Tobey
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Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth,…
— Confucius
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The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner space is closer…
— Mark Tobey
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The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.
— Max Eastman
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I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our…
— Unknown Author
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Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the…
— Ludwig Boltzmann
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