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“Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.”

Differences Chance Amount Accounts Mere Species Variety Habitual Origin Of Species

Book:Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies

Source: Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies

“We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is impossible to make out that the one is a mere perversion of the other. Therefore when we include both types under a general term like government, we get into logical difficulties; difficulties of which most writers on the subject have been more or less vaguely aware, but which, until within the last half-century, none of them has tried to resolve.”

Has Beens Two Government Lasts Political Term Half Impossible Subjects Century Type Organization Accounts Difficulty Mere Logical Resolve Perversion Make Out

Author:Albert J. Nock

“Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. Mere orderliness leads to increasing impoverishment and finally to the lowest possible level of structure, no longer clearly distinguishable from chaos, which is the absence of order. A counterprinciple is needed, to which orderliness is secondary. It must supply what is to be ordered.”

Men Order Levels Particular Needed Accounts Structure Mere Chaos Absence Sufficient Organized Lowest Orderliness

Author:Rudolf Arnheim

“Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.”

Made Use Pleasure Trouble Civilization Accounts Mere Complicated Chosen Despite Barbarians Newness

Book:Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life

Source: Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life

“Of course, we need not be surprised if artistic excellence goes unrecognized on account of being unknown; but there should be the greatest indignation when, as often, good judges are flattered by the charm of social entertainments into an approbation which is a mere a pretence.”

Ifs Needs Should Courses Social Judging Accounts Excellence Mere Entertainment Artistic Charm Indignation Flattered Pretence Good Judges

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors.”

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2. That aspect of education (beyond mere literacy) which takes account of quantitative aspects of reality.”

May Art Reality Order Decision Numbers Amount Aspect Accounts Mere Practicals Literacy Variables Numeracy

Book:Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent

Source: Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent

“There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.”

Men Needs Funny Values Worry Accounts Mere Size Fats Diets Weight Loss Newton Obesity Isaac Fat Man Hippopotamus Fatness Thin Man

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend this more perfect Species of Knowledge beyond these Bounds are mere Sophistry and Illusion.”

Knows Seems Science Perfect Numbers Knowledge Objects Illusion Accounts Mere Species Bounds Abstract Quantity Demonstration Sophistry

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and mechanical science, are a continual source of tranquil pleasure, and in spite of the gloomy dogmas of priests and of superstition, the study of these things is the true theology; it teaches man to know and admire the Creator, for the principles of science are in the creation, and are unchangeable and of divine origin.”

Source: The age of reason

“Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.”

Done Film Science Poor Accounts Sacred Mere Swim Superficial Hero Worship

Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward

“The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a mere possibility; whilst the material without a plan is but useless matter.”

Matter Science Plans Air Possibility Materials Accounts Mere Useless Castles Edifice Castles In The Air

Author:Dmitri Mendeleev