#coherent

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

#change #coherent #definite #dissipation #evolution

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. ↗

— Fred Hoyle

#i #know #plan #though #universe

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#argument #coherent #follow #hope #i

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#clauses #coherent #context #discourse #each

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country. ↗

— Herbert Read

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What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#coherent #context #day #deserve #end

I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#classical #coherent #ending #enough #feel

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#art #chaos #coherent #feels #important

The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case. ↗

— William Whewell

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I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece. ↗

— Robert Nozick

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