Plato, in contrast, argued that unchanging truths underpin the flux of the material world.
Think of the credit sequence of Matt Groening's Futurama: in the foreground, Fry, frozen and unchanging in his suspension chamber; outside the window, civilizations rise and fall, aliens invade, everything is bombed back to the Stone Age and humankind must rebuild itself from the rubble again and again as 10,000 years are burned away before us in a matter of moments.
Both, indeed, are barely characters at all, being a bundle of unchanging qualities — courage and curiosity in one, hope and defeatedness in the other — allied to the simplest of graphic gestures.
PAGE E3 Bluegrass Oasis Since the '60s, the Everett brothers have held a bluegrass show in their barn, unchanging even as their Georgia town turns suburban.
For computational efficiency, we can take advantage of the fact that V is unchanging in the refractory period by replacing the voltage dynamics with (dot{V}=1), thus letting V implement our refractory time counter in Region IV.
At the time of Linnaeus, everyone still viewed all species as unchanging.
In the future, Vuletic said, physicists might even use the devices to test, via lab experiments, whether fundamental constants in physics are indeed unchanging.
Their arguments feature semi-syllogistic structure and the illusion of logic but they are not grounded in anything verifiable or even unchanging.
In so far as strategy implies unchanging commitment, it is the antithesis of flexibility.
Tourist brochures have long described Varanasi, India's holiest city and one of the oldest continually inhabited settlements in the world, as "eternal" or "unchanging".
The genetic code has been unchanging for some three billion years in its canonical ensemble of encoded amino acids, as indicated by the universal adoption of this ensemble by all known organisms.
