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• The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust…
• My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many…
• Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.
• I believe it to be of particular importance that the scientist have an articulate and adequate social philosophy, even more important than…
• It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
• By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in…
• Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory.
• Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the…
• The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who…
• I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance…
• The feeling of understanding is as private as the feeling of pain. The act of understanding is at the heart of all…
• The operational approach demands that we make our reports and do our thinking in the freshest terms of which we are capable,…

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