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"Naturæ leges et regulæ, secundum quas omnia fiunt et ex unis formis in alias mutantur, sunt ubique et semper eadem."
American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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"Naturæ leges et regulæ, secundum quas omnia fiunt et ex unis formis in alias mutantur, sunt ubique et semper eadem."
Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Fortunately, this is the Internet, so omnia mutantur, nihil interit.
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‘Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis’; but was that true?
Over the River 2004
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Is not the observation, Omnia mutantur, nil interit, a contemplation in philosophy thus, that the quantum of nature is eternal? in natural theology thus, that it requireth the same omnipotency to make somewhat nothing, which at the first made nothing somewhat? according to the Scripture, Didici quod omnia opera, quoe fecit Deus, perseverent in perpetuum; non possumus eis quicquam addere nec auferre.
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It is in this sense that the Latin tempus appears in such phrases as tempora mutantur.
ZEITGEIST NATHAN ROTENSTREICH 1968
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(No. 14.p. 215.), I beg to state, that the _germ_ of "Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis," is to be found in the _Delitiæ
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_Tempora_ -- do, I entreat you, allow me the use of my solitary dear delightful old bit of Latin -- _mutantur_; ay! and we mutate with them.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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-- Truly "_Tempora mutantur_," and fortunately _nos et mutamur in illis_.
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"Kings may be blest," &c., and those which follow, beginning "But pleasures are like poppies spread," is typical of the perpetual antithesis of the author's thought and life, in which, at the back of every revelry, he sees the shadow of a warning hand, and reads on the wall the writing, _Omnia mutantur_.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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