Critical Quotes

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Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments, but… — Karl Popper
To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field… — Thomas Kuhn
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men… — Jean Piaget
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
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments,… — Humphry Davy
The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo… — Richard Dawkins
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of… — Marshall McLuhan
It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the… — Betty Buckley
Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more… — Soren Kierkegaard
Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of… — Frances Ford Seymour
Looking for honest ways to lift one another would . . . be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for we would see more good… — Neal A. Maxwell
During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must… — Mike Krzyzewski
In my humble opinion, we should now have reached peak oil. So it is high time to close this critical chapter in the history of… — Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari
Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are critical. — Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game...One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize these critical situations… — Tom Seaver
It's the old story. You might be able to fool your coaches, or your teammates, or your opponents. But, you can never fool yourself in… — Unknown Author
What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful? — Brian Tracy
It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our circumstances there. We must first… — John Henry Jowett
The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help in this. As… — H. Bentley Glass
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Most people are ready to believe something based on… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within measurement errors, to the critical… — Victor J. Stenger
In design it is important to shoe the effect of an action. ... Feedback is critical. — Donald A. Norman
I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got… — George Carlin
One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before the study of… — Ivan Pavlov
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion… — John Berger

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