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One great hope lies in the fact that there is a new consciousness in our World, particularly among young people. — Mairead Corrigan
We are living in a very exciting and powerful time. On the deepest level of consciousness, a radical spiritual transformation is taking place. I believe… — Shakti Gawain
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the… — Carl Jung
You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist. — Barry Long
As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of… — Louis Pasteur
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at… — Thomas Huxley
In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and… — John Desmond Bernal
In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge, they… — William Whewell
Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed to him by… — Claude Bernard
Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or… — Francis Bacon
Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer… — Henry David Thoreau
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular… — Benoit Mandelbrot
Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will… — Bertrand Russell
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are… — James Jeans
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This… — Bertrand Russell
The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to… — Bertrand Russell
Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and interpret facts, even… — Stephen Jay Gould
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful… — Al Gore
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the… — David Hume
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since… — Henri Poincare
At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. — Terry Pratchett
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular… — Bertrand Russell
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of the… — Louis Pasteur

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