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The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and…
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Everywhere science is enriched by unscientific methods and unscientific results, ... the separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but…
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Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or…
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No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame.…
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It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive…
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The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.
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Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise...
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My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the…
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I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when…
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The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are…
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Science is only ‘one’ of the many instruments people invented to cope with their surroundings. It is not the only one, it…
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It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is…
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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
— Paul Auster
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
— Francis Bacon
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I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of…
— David Chalmers
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which…
— Jonathan Swift
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Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every…
— George Washington
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At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The…
— Lucretius
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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions…
— George Orwell
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When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his…
— Frederic Bastiat
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A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds…
— Carl Sagan
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
— Galileo Galilei
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Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
— Antonio Machado
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Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed…
— Thomas Jefferson
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