“Does it not seem to you, Justice Joyce, that this series of statistics might well occur without the intervention of any Divine Will whatsoever?”
The Executioner, p. 136
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
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American writer 1931–2008Related quotes
“It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.”
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) English composer
Quoted in Michael Kennedy The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams ([1964] 1992) p. 302. He reportedly said this to Roy Douglas regarding whether his Symphony No.6 was meant to be programmatic.
Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist
Review of Ulysses, p. 446
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (2001)
“But has it occurred to you that there might be a reason for that?”
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
“I can think of several.” I cross my legs. “Mostly ranging from the inane to the criminally irresponsible.”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Rhesus Chart (2014), Chapter 11, “Boardrooms and Brokers” (p. 210)
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Source: 1960s, The meaning of the twentieth century: the great transition, 1964, p. 7
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
The Development Hypothesis (1852)
Context: That by any series of changes a protozoon should ever become a mammal, seems to those who are not familiar with zoology, and who have not seen how clear becomes the relationship between the simplest and the most complex forms when intermediate forms are examined, a very grotesque notion. Habitually, looking at things rather in their statical aspect than in their dynamical aspect, they never realize the fact that, by small increments of modification, any amount of modification may in time be generated.
