#relative

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#child #compared #corresponding #deal #importance

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#analysis #becomes #constant #domain #even

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#composed #determine #difficult #either #element

We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

#around #come #dock #earth #end

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#best #ends #how #importance #individuals

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes. ↗

— Keith Henson

#best #captured #dying #escape #fighting

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#evolution #exceptions #here #i #life

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with. ↗

— Oliver Hudson

#about #blood #choose #family #life

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income. ↗

— Harold Washington

#assets #day #every #every day #face

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#i #laugh #relatives #talked #used