Secondary Stability

Famous quotes containing the words secondary and/or stability:

    Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life.
    Robert Musil (1880–1942)

    Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)