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Phenomena Quotes by William James
- Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular…
- I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena…
- ...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore…
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- Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical… — Hermann von Helmholtz
- The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple… — Pierre-Simon Laplace