Age Specific Mortality

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

    “this caricature,
    Decrepit age that has been tied to me
    As to a dog’s tail?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “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)

    “The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.”
    —William Dean Howells (1837–1920)