Quotes & Sayings About Changing Stripes

Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn. — Oscar Wilde

Itwas one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant wasimportant. Now of course it's still important, of course, as a practical matter,but we now know that the value it has is a function, that in any fundamental theory you derive the fine structure constant as a function of all sorts of mass ratios and so on, and it's not really that fundamental. — Steven Weinberg

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars. — Mary Hunter Austin

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Gen. Washington having recrossed the Schuylkill, determined, on the 16th of September, again to meet Gen. Howe in the field of battle. The arrangements were made and the advance parties had already commenced firing, when there came on a violent shower of rain, which unfitted both armies for action. — Benjamin Tallmadge