100+ Divergence Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Collected Papers: Toward a general social science" (1974) by Kenneth Boulding (p. vii), as quoted in "Perspectives from the Boulding files" by Debora Hammond in "Systems Research", Vol. 12 No. 4, (pp. 281-290), 1995.

topic: Real, Social, Ideals, Divergence

...one exploiting sect, one people of leeches, one single devouring parasite closely and intimately bound together not only across national boundaries, but also across all divergences of political opinion ... [Jews have] that mercantile passion which constitutes one of the principle traits of their national character

- Mikhail Bakunin

topic: Character, Passion, People, Leeches, Divergence

Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in every land. The fearful by nature would compose an aristocracy, the hopeful by nature a democracy, were all other causes of divergence done away.

- Harriet Martineau

topic: Hope, Fear, Government, Divergence

There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.

- John Rawls

topic: Government, Law, Essentials, Laws And Government, Divergence

The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or recombination, is one of the most important results of mathematical analysis applied to the facts of neo-mendelism. It gives accident as well as adaptation a place in evolution, and at one stroke explains many facts which puzzled earlier selectionists, notably the much greater degree of divergence shown by island than mainland forms, by forms in isolated lakes than in continuous river-systems.

- Julian Huxley

source: Robert Fritz (1986). “The Path of Least Resistance: Principles for Creating what You Want to Create”, Stillpoint Pub

topic: Rivers, Lakes, Islands, Mathematical Analysis, Divergence

The idea of polytheism is grounded in the view that reality (divine or otherwise) is multiple and diverse... Polytheism has allowed a multitude of distinct groups to exist more or less in harmony, despite great divergence in beliefs and practices...

- Margot Adler

source: Margot Adler (2006). “Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America”, p.36, Penguin

topic: Reality, Practice, Ideas, Divergence, Polytheism

In the beginning God said, the four-dimensional divergence of an antisymmetric, second rank tensor equals zero, and there was light, and it was good. And on the seventh day he rested.

- Michio Kaku

source: "A universe in a nutshell: The physics of everything, with Michio Kaku". bigthink.com. 2017.

topic: Zero, Light, Four, Divergence

If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago have been made ... We have failed not for lack of hypotheses which equate man with the rest of the universe, but for lack of a hypothesis (short of animism) which provides for the peculiar divergence of man ... Let me now state my belief that the peculiar factor in man which forbids our explaining his actions upon the ordinary plane of biology is a highly specialized and unstable biological complex, and that this factor is none other than language.

- Leonard Bloomfield

topic: Men, Long, Ordinary, Divergence, Animism

The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the adaptations of organisms, those innumerable features that so wonderfully equip them for survival and reproduction; it is this theory that accounts for the divergence of species from common ancestors and thus for the endless diversity of life. Natural selection is a simple concept, but it is perhaps the most important idea in biology.

- Douglas J. Futuyma

topic: Simple, Ideas, Diversity, Divergence, Diversity Of Life

[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.

- Akbar Ganji

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Divergence

Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.

- Niall Ferguson

source: "The 6 killer apps of prosperity". Ted conference, www.ted.com. 2011.

topic: Motivation, Inspiration, Average, Divergence

Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.

- George Gaylord Simpson

topic: Wells, Splitting, Variety, Divergence

The lower interest rates fueled housing and consumption booms in countries such as Spain and Ireland. At the same time, Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, tightened its belt and became more competitive. All this led to a wide divergence in economic performance. Europe became divided into creditor and debtor countries.

- George Soros

source: "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

topic: Country, Struggle, Europe, Divergence, Creditors

There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.

- Ian Bremmer

source: "A World Without Leadership: Ten Questions with Ian Bremmer (Part 1)". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com. May 6, 2012.

topic: Powerful, World, Moments, Divergence

In the nearer term, the likeliest source of risk is a conflict between China and the U.S. These are now the two largest economies in the world, and the combination of their economic interdependence, the sharp differences in their political and economic values, and the growing divergence in their interests makes this relationship potentially dangerous for everyone who might be affected by it - which means pretty much everyone.

- Ian Bremmer

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Economic Value, Divergence

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: "Heretics". Chapter XIV: "On Certain Modern Writers and the Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Institution of the Family", 1905.

topic: Real, Men, Community, Clique, Clans

This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character.

- Charles Darwin

source: Charles Darwin (1870). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.12

topic: Divergence

Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.

- Elizabeth Janeway

topic: Cat, Race, Class, Divergence

The profound divergences of opinion on war and peace had been shown to know no sex.

- Sylvia Pankhurst

topic: Sex, War, Profound, Divergence

Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence of Buddhism and Christianity from their primitive patterns. For it should not be forgotten that by their glorification of poverty and celibacy both these religions struck straight at the root not merely of civil society but of human existence. The blow was parried by the wisdom or the folly of the vast majority of mankind, who refused to purchase a chance of saving their souls with the certainty of extinguishing the species.

- James G. Frazer

topic: Glorification, Divergence, Buddhism And Christianity

I think Little Nicky was a divergence from the films Adam Sandler was used to doing, and he was taking a risk. I admire him for doing that.

- Kevin Nealon