Age Specific Mortality

Famous quotes containing the words age, specific and/or mortality:

    “Methinks the truth should live from age to age,
    As ‘twere retailed to all posterity,
    Even to the general all-ending day.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The more specific idea of evolution now reached is—a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.”
    —Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)

    “Antiquity breached mortality with myths.
    Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates
    A cornice on the Third National Bank.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)