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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms…
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Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to…
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It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.
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In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most…
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It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That…
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Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature…
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Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all…
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I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion…
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It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment…
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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
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What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
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It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
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It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
— Henri Poincare
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Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
— Blaise Pascal
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I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by definition of it, then they can hardly…
— Walter Cronkite
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Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.
— Frans de Waal
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I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is…
— Doris Lessing
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There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those…
— Tom Robbins
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Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.
— Jacob Bronowski
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Supposing that Truth is a woman ---well, now, is there not some foundation for suspecting that all philosophers, insofar as they were…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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