“A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.”
Herbert Spencer
“By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.”
Saint Augustine
“Order is repetition of units.Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.”
M.C. Escher
“The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.”
Jane Jacobs
“O Marvelous! what new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.”
William Carlos Williams
“In simple terms, the data shows that in mammals each individual gene uses multiple different mechanisms to produce different forms of protein. In a sense, each 'gene' is actually multiple different genes,”
David Hume
“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities”
Mark Twain
