Age Specific Mortality

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

    “For each age is a dream that is dying,
    Or one that is coming to birth.”
    —Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy (1844–1881)

    “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)