Kenneth W. Ford quotes

Kenneth W. Ford quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“One of the elementary rules of nature is that, in the absence of a law prohibiting an event or phenomenon, it is bound to occur with some degree of probability. To put it simply and crudely: Anything that can happen does happen.”
-- Kenneth W. Ford

#Nature Quotes #Law Quotes #Events Quotes

“Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.”

Source : Address to the Geological Society, delivered on the Evening of the 18th of February 1831, Proceedings of the Geological Society, 1, 307, 1834.
“I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.”
“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.”
“We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.”
“How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.”
“There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.”
“Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes”

Source : "Beastie Boys: 'We can't make new music' and may never play live again" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2014.
“It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.”

Source : "The Manipulator" by Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2004.
“There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.”
“In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.”

Source : Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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