The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Nothing in the universe is contingent but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

Modernity signifies the transitory the fugitive the contingent the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

Modernity is the transitory the fugitive the contingent which make up one half of art the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element which is constantly changing must not be despised or neglected.

Modernity is the transient the fleeting the contingent it is one half of art the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Engineering medicine business architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short with design.