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“If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).”

Ifs Wells Two Past Science Nature Natural Saws Century Function Assuming Physics Mathematical Engineering Equations Hammers Continuity Differential Equations

Book:The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward

Source: The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward

“We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire. I like that image. There has to be a unifying theory. I think there is a continuity of some kind, that my love for my wife will go on past the death of my body. Nature is perfect.”

Thinking Kind Body Past Perfect Fire Wife Theory Goes On My Wife Ashes Continuity Unifying Embers

Author:William Shatner

“The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.”

Past Form Continuity Viewpoints

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.”

Ifs Seems Past Break Europe Things Change Continuity Past Away

Book:Burger's Daughter

Source: Burger's Daughter

“One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights. ... On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices.”

“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.”

Source: Occasions and protests