"Nexus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "proved" if the proofs that already lie before us are not sufficient. How often has it been repeated that the scientific certainty of the hypothesis of descent is not grounded in this or that isolated experiment, but in the collective sum of biological phenomena; in the causal nexus of evolution. Then what are the new proofs of the theory of descent which ...
— Freedom in Science and Teaching. - from the German of Ernst Haeckel • Ernst Haeckel
... Causa resoluit? Quis tanta deus Veris statuit bella duobus, Vt quae carptim singula constent Eadem nolint mixta iugari? 5 An nulla est discordia ueris Semperque sibi certa cohaerent? Sed mens caecis obruta membris Nequit oppressi luminis igne Rerum tenues noscere nexus. 10 Sed cur tanto flagrat amore Veri tectas reperire notas? Scitne quod appetit anxia nosse? Sed quis nota scire laborat? At si nescit, quid caeca petit? 15 Quis enim quidquam nescius optet Aut quis ualeat nescita sequi? Quoue inueniat, quisque[173] repertam Queat ignarus ...
— The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy • Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
... from their premises, the nexus is lost, and the argument with its rightful conclusions, becomes correspondingly ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain |
