In his early years, Linnaeus believed that the species was not only real, but unchangeable — as he wrote, Unitas in omni specie ordinem ducit (The invariability of species is the condition for order [in nature]). ❋ Unknown (2009)
So there is, as we might put it, a core of invariability surrounded by a variable periphery. ❋ Dancy, Jonathan (2009)
Still, despite his concerns with Bush's abuses, he explained that he does not support impeachment, because of the timing, not enough time before the election and the regrettable invariability of the process becoming even further political. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The theory of the French writer is that Ibsen's constant aim is to reconcile and to conciliate the two biological hypotheses which have divided opinion in the nineteenth century, and which are known respectively by the names of Cuvier and Lamarck; namely, that of the invariability of species and that of the mutability of organic forms. ❋ Unknown (2008)
This situation is far from ideal, but the alternative, using data after 1960 and thus incorporating non-temperature- related bias when fitting regression equations as a function of density variability,would invariability produce earlier estimates of past temperature that, to some extent, too warm. esceptico ❋ Unknown (2007)
One has to assume, for example, that a word will mean tomorrow what it means today and what it meant yesterday, just as the scientist has to assume the invariability of natural law, which could never be proven, in order to apply the laws of physics at all. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)
This situation is far from ideal, but the alternative, using dataafter 1960 and thus incorporating non-temperature- related bias when fitting regression equations as a function of density variability, would invariability produce earlier estimates of past temperature that, to some extent, too warm. ❋ Unknown (2006)
This situation is far from ideal, but the alternative … would invariability produce earlier estimates of past temperature that, to some extent, too warm. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The Cartesian philosophy posited two fundamental axioms—the supremacy of reason and the invariability of the laws of nature. ❋ Robert W. Merry (2005)
This, however, would seem quite incompatible with the “permanent invariability of species,” but the difficulty is overcome by assuming that such varieties have strict limits, and can never again vary further from the original type, although they may return to it, which, from the analogy of the domesticated animals, is considered to be highly probable, if not certainly proved. ❋ Unknown (2004)
To quote almost at random, "invariability across the species" is a "simplifying assumption" that "seems to provide a close approximation to the facts" and is, "so far as we know, fair enough" for particular inquiries (Chomsky, Reflections on Language, 1975). ❋ Chomsky, Noam (1991)
Bury has drawn attention to the importance of the notion of the invariability of the laws of nature for the idea of progress. ❋ MORRIS GINSBERG (1968)
It is, of course, clear that this hypothesis is in formal contradiction with his principal hypothesis of the invariability of connections, and that he, so to speak, gets a hold on his fish to apply his principle of connections only by admitting at the very outset an exception to his primary principle. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Absolution may even be extended to the calculating individual who ravenously times his arrival by the supper hour; but, for a simple-minded person, unaccustomed to the usages of polite society, to believe in the invariability of fixed appointments and, taking an invitation au pied de la lettre, make his appearance a full hour before any other guest would dare to "turn up," from the fear of being thought unfashionable, is simply monstrous! ❋ Unknown (N/A)
This, however, would seem quite incompatible with the "permanent invariability of species," but the difficulty is overcome by assuming that such varieties have strict limits, and can never again vary further from the original type, although they may return to it, which, from the analogy of the domesticated animals, is considered to be highly probable, if not certainly proved. ❋ Various (N/A)
So it is intermediatism to accept that, though gravitation may approximate higher to invariability than do the winds, for instance, it must be somewhere between the ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)
[Politicians] [invariably] distort the truth and avoid giving straight [answers]. ❋ AKACroatalin (2015)
