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6149 Nor quotes by 3085 unique authors
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That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief…
— John Dewey
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And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible…
— Thomas Hobbes
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Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may…
— William Blackstone
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Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments, but…
— Karl Popper
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Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real power that gives…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from…
— Anaxagoras
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The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of…
— Karl Popper
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The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure.…
— Albert Einstein
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It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin…
— Bertrand Russell
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When the heart is once won to rest in God, to repose himself on him, he will assuredly satisfy it. He will never be as…
— John Owen
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The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within the reach of…
— Isaac Newton
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You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not…
— Francis Pharcellus Church
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"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether it itself be…
— Max Wertheimer
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Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be…
— Richard Dawkins
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Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the gate…
— Roger Bacon
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[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care…
— Henry Adams
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
— Doris Lessing
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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern…
— Edmund Burke
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Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
— Rufus Choate
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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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