#rarely

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

#important #incremental #intuitions #nature #new

Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#around #break #community #development #first

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. ↗

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

#great men #isolated #men #ranges #rarely

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. ↗

— Homer

#fathers #few #most #rarely #similar

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. ↗

— Horace

#content #find #guest #happy #happy life

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists. ↗

— Harriet Van Horne

#broadcasting #few #flick #history #much

So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped. ↗

— David Knopfler

#arrangement #blood #company #i #large

Polite conversation is rarely either. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#conversation #either #polite #rarely

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#anything #bother #children #discussing #rarely

I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me. ↗

— Richard Virenque

#count #doping #fingers #hand #i