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When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not yet be in possession of… — Henri Poincare
Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and… — Hippocrates
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it. — Seneca the Younger
All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we ought always to… — David Hume
The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived by generalization from… — Hans Reichenbach
It appears that anything you say about the way that theory and experiment may interact is likely to be correct, and anything you say about… — Steven Weinberg
As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he… — Roger Bacon
I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct. — Sandra Bernhard
It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful… — Alexander Hamilton
Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment. — Donald Rumsfeld
The information was correct, but the interpretation was not — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
I don't pay attention to what others are doing. I feel strongly that if I have correct goals and the determination to keep pursuing them… — Dan Dierdorf
You just can't say lesbianism hurts women's golf. It's more correct to say homophobia does. — Donna Lopiano
But it must not be forgotten that ... glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their ores by mere empirical processes… — Justus von Liebig
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we… — John Templeton
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. — Thomas Sprat
A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy; A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very trustworthy, but I… — Arthur Eddington
This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to… — Simon Heffer
Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to the present moment,… — Astley Cooper
The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche… — R. J. Hollingdale
The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are… — Harry Frankfurt
There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities… — Albert Sorel
As security or firewall administrators, we've got basically the same concerns [as plumbers]: the size of the pipe, the contents of the pipe, making sure… — Marcus J. Ranum
The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of Eastern philosophies. What… — Dean Radin

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