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The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained…

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...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall…
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts…
In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.
It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.
In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and…
The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our…
The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in…
Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

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Words taken literally or held as ultimate truth can keep us stagnant and stuck, holding on to old ideologies. I now know… — Anita Moorjani
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts… — William Whewell
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