Necessary Conditions Quotes

If gravity were somewhat stronger or weaker, stars wouldn't exist, and neither would you. And the same can be said of other constants of physics. Several have to be 'just right.'

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Both a societal infrastructure and the talent of ab individuals or individuals are necessary and dufficient conditions for success in a modern democracy.

Nothing comes into being without a cause and when all the conditions are created, there is nothing that can prevent the consequence.

Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.

...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.

To cook your hare you must first catch it.

The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Each of these must be right for that particular moment in history, or nothing happens.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

For when the law doth give any thing to one, it giveth impliedly whatsoever is necessary for the taking and enjoying of the same.

it is in vaine for a man to have a Right to the end, if the Right to the necessary meanes be deny'd him.

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.