Famous quotes containing the words previous and/or generation:
“Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)