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Foretell Quotes by William Whewell
- The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to…
- The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell…
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- Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could… — Willa Cather
- Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace… — Virgil
- The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show… — William Hazlitt
- Till facts be grouped and called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will… — Charles Darwin
- Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves. — Roger L'Estrange
- While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the… — Virginia Woolf
- At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities,… — Albert Camus