Famous quotes containing the words fixed and/or length:
“Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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