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Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the…
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It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the…
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For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful…
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The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life…
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True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.…
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If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it…
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It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were…
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[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its…
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Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
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It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
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It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
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It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of…
— Louis T. Moore
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Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another.
— Walt Whitman
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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than…
— Bertrand Russell
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[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once....…
— George Wald
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From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be…
— Jon Meacham
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Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is…
— Walt Whitman
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And I'm certain one day, you'll make it back home. With love, Your friend and Cêpan, -H
— Pittacus Lore
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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others
— Bertrand Russell
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While I was outside looking up at all of the stars in the sky. I noticed that there are a lot from…
— CTate
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