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As such, you cannot help feeling a sort of humility around them: They may be slow and ungainly and lumpily fashioned, but they are, in their durability and unchangeability, perfect in a way we aren’t.

From New York Times • May 17, 2017

If so, we can interpret human existence, and our ideas may still be in unison with scientific truth, and in accord with our conception of the stability, the unchangeability of the universe.

From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper, John William

It indicates both the infancy of the art, and that unchangeability of manners which is characteristic of all the natives of America.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina

The fundamental principle of his philosophy was the recognition of the unchangeability of the universe as a whole, the variety of forms that we see being produced by new arrangements of its constituent parts.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William

To the names already given as belonging to the Eleatic school may be added that of Melissus of Samos, who also founded his argument on the nature of Being, deducing its unity, unchangeability, and indivisibility.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William