Permanence Quotes (3)
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.
A Modern Utopia (1904, 2006), 14.
See also: | Aristotle (85) | Catechism (2) | Logic (66) | Philosophy (72) | Plato (15) | Science (444) | Thought (65)
It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved 'that the subject was in the air,' or 'that men's minds were prepared for it.' I do not think that this is strictly true, for I occasionally sounded not a few naturalists, and never happened to come across a single one who seemed to doubt about the permanence of species.
In Charles Darwin and Francis Darwin (ed.), Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters (1892), 42.
See also: | Doubt (27) | Mind (116) | Naturalist (11) | Origin Of Species (30) | Subject (11) | Success (33) | Truth (241)
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
Soliloquies in England (1937), 18.
