Quotes of Tenuous - somelinesforyou

“ For is it not true that human progress is but a mighty growing pattern woven together by the tenuous single threads united in a common effort? ”

- Madame Chiang Kai Shek

“ The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. ”

- A. W. Tozer

“ There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities — potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry — that was a sublime experience… ”

- Gregory Benford Timescape

“ No stance is without presuppositions, for to be without them is to be without a foundation. Presuppositions are our guidelines to truth; they undergird our values, standards, and ideals; they form the framework within which we move. Yet presuppositions by their very nature can not be proved or demonstrated; they can only be affirmed… ”

- Clyde L. Manschreck
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