Successors Quotes
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All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.
William Shakespeare
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Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage.
Walther Rathenau
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The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not of a great, but of a decaying society. Historians know that both phenomena were especially marked in the declining eras of the Roman Empire in the West and of its successor state, the Eastern or Byzantine Empire.
William Henry Chamberlin
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Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.
Walther Rathenau
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When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one.
Paul Lieberstein
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Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait evolved. For example, Darwin argued that skull sutures in mammals did not evolve because they facilitate live birth; the sutures were in place well before live birth evolved. Checking the chronological order in which different traits evolved in a lineage is one way to test an adaptive hypothesis; the fact of common ancestry is what makes that checking possible.
Elliott Sober
