Famous quotes containing the word contrary:
“To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.... He does not have to struggle ... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.”
—Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960)
“By this contrivance the machinery of my work is of a species by itself; two contrary motions are introduced into it, and reconciled, which were thought to be at variance with each other. In a word, my work is digressive, and it is progressive too,—and at the same time.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)