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Understanding a theory has, indeed, much in common with understanding a human personality. We may know or understand a man's system of dispositions pretty well;… — Karl Popper
At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the… — William Osler
Even the mind depends so much on temperament and the disposition of one's bodily organs that, if it is possible to find a way to… — Rene Descartes
All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses… — G. Stanley Hall
I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier. — Sigmund Freud
Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh.… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take… — Muhammad Yunus
When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer… — Pope Francis
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same… — Francis Bacon
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it… — Freeman Dyson
[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define "serendipity"… — Irving Langmuir
I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in… — Ernest Rutherford
Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. — Richard Dawkins
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks,… — Richard P. Feynman
Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company. — Margaret J. Wheatley
The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the… — Lewis H. Lapham
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is… — Abraham Lincoln
And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced… — Abraham Lincoln
When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor… — Abraham Lincoln

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