Repetition Quotes (3)
All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be revised if found to be unsatisfactory. Hence, a change of mind in a scientist, and particularly in a great scientist, is not only not a sign of weakness but rather evidence for continuing attention to the respective problem and an ability to test the hypothesis again and again.
The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution and Inheritance (1982), 831.
See also: | Ability (11) | Attention (6) | Change (40) | Evidence (31) | Hypothesis (83) | Interpretation (14) | Mind (116) | Problem (63) | Revise (3) | Scientist (71) | Sign (2) | Test (12) | Thinking (56) | Weakness (2)
Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.
Alfred North Whitehead, David Ray Griffin (ed.), Donald W. Sherburne (ed.), Process and Reality: an Essay in Cosmology (2nd Ed.,1979), 339.
See also: | Chaos (22) | Complexity (18) | Degenerate (2) | Novelty (4) | Order (21) | Requirement (6) | System (15)
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
Soliloquies in England (1937), 18.
