#uniformity

There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#freedom #individuality #liberty #society #uniformity

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#basis #been #demonstrated #fact #faith

The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product. ↗

— Peter Davison

#problem #produce #product #programs #terrible

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#advanced #america #belief #believed #differentiation

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. ↗

— Jean Paul

#mere #more #pleasure #something #than

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#built #houses #live #look #preferred