Famous quotes containing the word instances:
“The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)
“There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)