Quotes on Premature

Premature as the question may be, it is hardly possible not to wonder whether we will find any answer to our deepest questions, any signs of the workings of an interested God, in a final theory. I think that we will not.

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.