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The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of… — Karl Popper
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the… — Arthur Koestler
We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of… — Bertrand Russell
If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business,… — Vernon Howard
The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to… — Sigmund Freud
Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal,… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. — Liz Carpenter
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling. — David Seabury
The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with… — Jeffrey Archer
Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable… — Charles Bukowski
...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. — Constantin Brancusi
Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of… — Adolf Hitler
When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to… — Benjamin Franklin
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied… — A A Milne
If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a… — Bill Maher
The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a… — Thomas Kuhn
If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to… — Anton Chekhov
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. — Arthur Schopenhauer
And the cause of everything is that which we call God. — Leo Tolstoy
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of… — Thomas Paine

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