Gradualism Quote by William Lloyd Garrison

The inevitability of gradualness.

— Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of…

— William Lloyd Garrison

The inevitability of gradualness cannot fail to be appreciated.

— Sidney Webb

The recurrence of fundamentals is essential to perpetuity.

— Harold B. Lee

But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it.

— Kim Gordon

“This kind of incrementalism leads to irrelevance over time, especially in technology, because change tends to be revolutionary not evolutionary.”

— Eric Schmidt

“Any theory that makes progress is bound to be initially counterintuitive.”

— Daniel C. Dennett

“An 'established principle' is the one which will never become untrue, irrespective of time.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord.

— Mary Jane Holmes

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

— Robert Herrick

The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Look, as an institutionalist who recognizes the power of incrementalism in the slow but steady march to equality, I'm used to seeing the forest…

— Jonathan Capehart