Common experience teaches us that continual, varying change is the order of nature. As the old hymn has it, 'Change and decay in all around I see,' which seems a needlessly pessimistic paraphrase of the dictum of Heraclitus, 'All things flow'.


The Handmaiden of the Sciences, Chapter 4 (p. 61)

Eric Temple Bell Quotes

Common experience teaches us that continual, varying change is the order of nature. As the old hymn has it, 'Change and decay in all around I see,'...

Common experience teaches us that continual, varying change is the order of nature. As the old hymn has it, 'Change and decay in all around I see,'...

Common experience teaches us that continual, varying change is the order of nature. As the old hymn has it, 'Change and decay in all around I see,'...

Common experience teaches us that continual, varying change is the order of nature. As the old hymn has it, 'Change and decay in all around I see,'...