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Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The…
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Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now…
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In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
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It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their…
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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously…
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This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal…
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Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis…
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I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
— Francis Bacon
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they…
— Herbert Spencer
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference…
— C.S. Lewis
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Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists…
— Isaac Asimov
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Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such…
— Bertrand Russell
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If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences…
— David Hume
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Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God…
— John B. S. Haldane
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In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that…
— Bertrand Russell
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