(17 quotes found)
“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
“Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.”
Wilhelm Reich
“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
“Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am,by what devious means do you contriveto remain idle? Teach me, O master.”
William Carlos Williams
“How can you contrive to write so even?”
Jane Austen
“The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, / The varnished clock that clicked behind the door; / The chest contrived a double debt to pay, / A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.”
Oliver Goldsmith
“Abandoning all devices and contrivances, I have sought His Sanctuary. Nanak has fallen at the Feet of the Guru. ”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“I often think it's comical / How Nature always does contrive / That every boy and every gal, / That's born into the world alive, / Is either a little Liberal, / Or else a little Conservative!”
William S. Gilbert
