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It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science. — Ernst Mayr
It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they are the result… — Karl Popper
Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead… — William James
The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this… — William James
I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics of… — George Wald
I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method… — Alfred Binet
A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced… — Max Perutz
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the… — Arthur C. Clarke
While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the… — Edward Jenner
No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a… — Ronald Fisher
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
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?" — Gian-Carlo Rota
I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you… — Charles Kettering
The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take… — Paul Dirac
I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too. — Kiki Smith
When we work hard, we must eat well. What a joy, that you can receive Holy Communion often! It's our life and support in this… — Peter Julian Eymard
Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind. — Douglas MacArthur
We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes. — Charles Caleb Colton
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth… — John Stuart Mill
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. — Francois Mauriac
You can choose, you can go one of two ways. You can be the person I probably admire more and say 'well I don't care… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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