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“Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences, whilst the historian of man is constantly at fault as to dates and even the sequence of events, to say nothing of the contradicting statements which he is forced to reconcile.”

Men Science Existence Events Faults Statements Witness Historian Fossils Sequence Reconcile Burial Contradicting Sequence Of Events

Author:Roderick Murchison

“The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.”

Mind May Facts Feelings Science Habit Judgment Accounts Function Recognition Characteristics Significance Relative Sequence Classification Frame Of Mind Personal Feelings

Book:The Grammar of Science

Source: The Grammar of Science

“The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached to the next by a logical string. In truth, whenever we discover a new fact it involves the elimination of old ones. We are always, as it turns out, fundamentally in error.”

Sometimes Facts Body Science Turns Next Huge Mass Logic Accounts Errors Logical Strings Sequence Elimination

Author:Lewis Thomas

“As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved. The hard part will be finding out what it means, because this poses intellectual problems of how to understand the participation of the genes in the functions of living cells.”

Humans Mean Hard Problem Science Easy Issues Involved Findings Projects Intellectual Research Function Cells Genes Participation Sequence Genome Genome Project Human Genome Project

Author:Sydney Brenner

“[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I believe that reading our blueprints, cataloguing our own instruction book, will be judged by history as more significant than even splitting the atom or going to the moon.”

Way Believe Humans Book Science Reading I Believe History Moon Significant Organized Atoms Judged Instruction Sequence Undertakings Blueprints Splitting Genome Splitting The Atom

Author:Francis Collins

“The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a sequence of such revolutionary selections, separated by periods of normal research, is the wonderfully adapted set of instruments we call modern scientific knowledge.”

Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

“I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is bound to show why it is more irreligious to explain the origin of man as a distinct species by descent from some lower from, through the laws of variation and natural selection, than to explain the birth of the individual through the laws of ordinary reproduction. The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance.”

Source: The Descent of Man and Seletion in Relation to Sex

“It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of families, appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual completely continuous transitional sequences.”

Knows Levels Known Records Evolution Remains Species Categories Fossils Sequence Stasis

Author:George Gaylord Simpson

“What attracted me to immunology was that the whole thing seemed to revolve around a very simple experiment: take two different antibody molecules and compare their primary sequences. The secret of antibody diversity would emerge from that. Fortunately at the time I was sufficiently ignorant of the subject not to realise how naive I was being.”

Two Different Whole Science Simple Secret Subjects Ignorance Diversity Simplicity Experiments Ignorant Primaries Compare Realising Naive Sequence Molecules Antibodies

Author:Cesar Milstein

“One of the things that I've worked my way out of doing, and I knew that I needed to, was comparing myself to other people. That just poisins everything. It all of a sudden dtermines even clothes you're going to choose to wear that day or what you're going to do with a music production or how you're going to sequence it. It poisinseverything. Your real job in the world is to be you. Comparing yourself to other people I think that hurt me more than anything. Allowing myself to go there so much in my head hurt me.”

People Thinking World Way Real Jobs Hurt Needed Clothes Productions My Way Compare Allowing Be You Sequence Hurt Me Real Jobs Comparing Yourself Comparing Yourself To Others

Author:India.Arie

“It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as a line of melody written in a canon form & so designed by Nature to fold back into itself, creating harmonic chords of interaction consistent with biological function”

Should Inspiration Form Lines Written Creating Function Contemplation Consistent Melody Interaction Precise Sequence Chords Folds Molecules Protein Canon Geometric

Author:Christian B. Anfinsen

“This element of surprise or mystery — the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called — is of great importance in a plot. It occurs through a suspension of the time-sequence; a mystery is a pocket in time, and it occurs crudely, as in "Why did the queen die?" and more subtly in half-explained gestures and words, the true meaning of which only dawns pages ahead. Mystery is essential to a plot, and cannot be appreciated without intelligence.”

“Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.”

Writing Musical Phrases Sequence Metronomes

Book:Literary Essays of Ezra Pound

Source: Literary Essays of Ezra Pound

“Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.”

Nature Accomplish Leap Sequence

Book:Conversations and encounters

Source: Conversations and encounters

“Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.”

Believe Science Belief Goal Technology Achieve Particular Essentials Machines Ultimate Defined Programming Logical Gates Sequence

Author:Stewart Alsop II

“I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived by the ancient Greeks, thrived under Isaac Newton, suffered under Albert Einstein... That fragment of a 'creed for materialism' which a friend in college had once shown him rose through Donald's confused mind.”

“Where timber vegetation is ruthlessly destroyed, aridity and its sequence sterility will prevail and the hotter the climate, the more to be dreaded.”

Environment Climate Destroyed Sequence Timber Hotter Vegetation

Author:Ferdinand von Mueller

“However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over a huge sequence of centuries. It is easy to picture to oneself the effects of this impact upon the Earth. The axis and the motion of rotation changed; the seas abandoning their old position to throw themselves toward the new equator; a large part of men and animals drowned in this universal deluge, or destroyed by the violent tremor imparted to the terrestrial globe.”

“Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely spaced voicings. Dfferent textures to get very warm chords. Sometimes you're setting up strange chords by placing a chord in front of it that's going to set it off like a diamond in a gold band. It's not just finding interesting chords, it's how you sequence them, like stringing together pearls on a string. ... Interesting chords will compel interesting melodies. It's very hard to write a boring melody to an interesting chord sequence.”

“It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.”

Ideas Facts Stories Force History Autobiography Constructs Hypothesis Sequence Subordinates Persuasive

Book:The facts: a novelist's autobiography

Source: The facts: a novelist's autobiography

“Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.”

Thinking Way Kind Has Beens Use Names Term Computer Unique Mark Complicated Operations Sequence Jargon Macro

Book:Academic Instincts

Source: Academic Instincts

“I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to reflect: I am a mirror. Logic does not exist for me. I float on the waves of art and life and never really know how to distinguish what belongs to the one or the other or what is common to both. Life unfolds for me like a theatre presenting a sequence of somewhat unreal sentiments; while the things of art are real to me and go straight to my heart.”

Thinking Knows Heart Doe Art Real Common Know How Talent My Heart Weakness Logic Mirrors Wave Theatre Idiot Sentiments Laziness Floats Sequence Unreal Presenting Art And Life

Author:Sviatoslav Richter

“Cinematic and symphonic: this is a compelling story revealed in a sequence of voices that are as pitch-perfect as they are irresistible. This is a wonderfully impressive debut: tender, muscled and unforgettable.”

Stories Voice Perfect Compelling Sequence Impressive Irresistible Debut Cinematic Unforgettable Pitch Perfect

Author:Rikki Ducornet

“I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.”

Thinking Important Character Happens Care Action Next Waiting Sequence

Author:Shawn Ashmore

“Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea - is a very old form of graphic communication. It began with the hieroglyphics in Egypt, it first appeared in a recognizable form in the Medieval times as copper plates produced by the Catholic church to tell morality stories.”

Firsts Ideas Stories Form Church Communication Morality Catholic Plates Arrangements Egypt Sequence Medieval Graphic Catholic Church Copper Hieroglyphics Medieval Times

Author:Will Eisner

“In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it”

Reality Issues Taken Sequence

Author:Rosie Perez

“In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed. There are facets of the hierarchy which do not flow naturally from any sort of random undirected evolutionary process. If the hierarchy suggests any model of nature it is typology and not evolution. How much easier it would be to argue the case for evolution if all nature's divisions were blurred and indistinct, if the systema naturalae was largely made up of overlapping classes indicative of sequence and continuity.”

“A picture story is a sequence of images combined with text in such a way that pictures and words reinforce each other. They produce a planned, organized combination giving detailed account of an event, personality or aspect of life.”

Way Giving Stories Events Produce Personality Aspect Accounts Combination Organized Sequence Aspects Of Life Pictures And Words

Author:Arthur Rothstein

“Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence of a kata in karate is useless.”

Has Beens Useless Martial Arts Emergencies Sequence Karate

Author:Gichin Funakoshi

“What I think I do is to relate any new material to how similar it is to something else. The closest that I can come up with something that's already in my experience, the easier it becomes. All I have to do then is remember where it differs, like relating a chord sequence that comes from some other tune, or several different tunes, or maybe parts of them and then work it from there.”

Thinking I Can Different Remember Music Materials Easier Come Up Relate Tunes Working It Closest Sequence Chords

Author:Tal Farlow

“To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.”

Mind Eye Sides Photographer Photograph Sequence

Author:Minor White

“Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.”

Persons Whole Essentials Photographer Evolve Pairs Imaginative Sequence Meditating Triplet

Author:Minor White

“This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!”

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.”

People Needs Feels Long War Wanted White Cutting Directors Direct Civil War Sequence

Author:Kevin Costner

“Much as I admire Tolkien, I once again always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog on the Khazad-dûm and he falls into the gulf, and his last words are, "Fly, you fools." What power that had, how that grabbed me. And then he comes back as Gandalf the White, and if anything he's sort of improved. I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been an even stronger story if Tolkien had left him dead.”

“Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.”

Trying Moments Remember Events Killing Recalls Clue Murderer Sequence Sequence Of Events

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.”

People Facts Greed Investing Folly Sequence Predictable

Author:Warren Buffett

“Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the second crossing the first, another person on examining these marks can tell unambiguously which was made first and which second, because the latter event irreversibly disturbs its predecessor. In virtue of the fact that most of the rocks of the earth contain imprints of a succession of such irreversible events, an unambiguous working out of the chronological sequence of these events becomes possible.”

“I have always added dance to my productions. When I was directing theatre, I added dance sequences where they didn't exist in the play. I think dance is the ultimate form of expression.”

Thinking Play Form Expression Ultimate Dance Productions Theatre Sequence

Author:Valerie Weiss

“Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be called "In his last body", "Great in wisdom" and a "Great man."”

Men May Body Lasts Understanding Study Words Of Wisdom Buddhist Experts Great Men Craving Sequence Clinging

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The funny thing is that the process of coming up with an idea for a column or a 'Candid Camera' sequence is essentially the same thing. I just live my life with eyes and ears perhaps a little bit wider open than some people. Whatever bothers me or seems off kilter or in need of parody-or on a serious subject, in need of examination-in the past I had done a sequence about it. Now I write a column about it.”

“If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.”

Ifs Way Writing Wells Use Action Film Moving Novel Tricks Visuals Sequence Rhetorical Good Actions

Author:Justin Cronin

“The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.”

“Earth as we know it came into being through its four great components: land, water, air, and life, all interacting in the light and energy of the sun. Although there was a sequence in the formation of the land sphere, the atmosphere, the water sphere, and the life sphere, these have so interacted with one another in the shaping of the Earth that we must somehow think of these as all present to one another and interacting from the beginning.”

Thinking Knows Life Light Earth Energy Water Sun Four Air Land Atmosphere Spheres Components Sequence Formation Interacting

Book:The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

“By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.”

Doubt Comfort Routine Sequence Doubt And Fear

Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton Abbey with cyber crime and shower sex.”

Action Lying Sex Pleasure Crime Showers Sequence Observing Cyber Exchanging Brits Abbey

Author:Karina Longworth

“Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior.”

Source: 2 Wrlds Childhood

“Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such that more of the something is always better than less of the something. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.”

Values Fall Sex Conditions Objects Simplicity Patterns Entertainment Substance Diets Toxic Quantity Organisms Items Sequence Deprived Temperature Variables Optimum

Author:Gregory Bateson

“Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.”

Made Failing Masters Sequence Skillful

Author:Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life”

Humans Form Causes Events Tasks Human Life Establishment Sequence Differentiation Sequence Of Events

Author:Franz Boas

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