“Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.”
Wilhelm Reich
“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.”
Charles Darwin
“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selections, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree.”
“The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals”
Cyril Connolly
“Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am,by what devious means do you contriveto remain idle? Teach me, O master.”
William Carlos Williams
“For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves.”
Francis Bacon
“How can you contrive to write so even?”
Jane Austen
