Regularity Quotes
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...in the 12th and 13th centuries believed that such a clock [mechanical clock] would provide a precise regularity to the seven periods of devotion...
— Neil Postman, in Computers, Ethics, and Society, p.130
I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.
— Abel Stevens, Life of Madame de Staël, Chapter XXXVIII.
I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.
thomas gainsborough— 1772 Letter to Edward Stratford,1 May, excusing himself for not yet finishing the portrait of him and his wife.
Those who aim at faultless regularity will only produce mediocrity, and no one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
william hazlitt— "Thoughts on Taste", Edinburgh Magazine, July 1819, final paragraph
Note the startling regularity through history with which society martyrs the rebel in one generation and worships him in the next. Socrates , Jesus , William Blake, Buddha , Krishna the list is as endless as it is rich.
rollo may— Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel
Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.
jack mcdevitt— Chapter 45 (p. 439)
I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific outlook has contributed very greatly to my own happiness, which I attribute to defecating twice a day with unfailing regularity.
bertrand russell— Letter to W. W. Norton (publisher), 27 January, 1931.
The epistemological value of probability theory is based on the fact that chance phenomena, considered collectively and on a grand scale, create non-random regularity.
— Andrey Kolmogorov, in Limit Distributions for Sums of Independent Random Variables (1954), as translated by K. L. Chung
Those who aim at faultless regularity will only produce mediocrity, and no one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
— William Hazlitt, "Thoughts on Taste", The Edinburgh Magazine, July 1819, final paragraph.
I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are uttee Enemies
thomas gainsborough— Letter to Edward Stratford (a patron) , 1 May 1772
This statistical regularity in moral affairs fully establishes their being under the presidency of law. Man is now seen to be an enigma only as an individual; in the mass he is a mathematical problem.
— Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)
