Repetition Quotes (5)
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 (13) | Attention (7) | Change (44) | Evidence (37) | Hypothesis (96) | Interpretation (17) | Mind (125) | Problem (72) | Revise (3) | Scientist (78) | Sign (4) | Test (14) | Thinking (58) | Weakness (3)
If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity.
Principles of Chemistry (1905), Vol. 2, 17.
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 (22) | Degenerate (2) | Novelty (4) | Order (25) | Requirement (7) | System (18)
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
Soliloquies in England (1937), 18.
The eighth element, starting from a given one, is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music.
'Letter to the Editor', Chemical News (1864), 10, 94.
