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Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians believe… — Lancelot Hogben
[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or… — M. King Hubbert
It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and… — Ernest Nagel
For truly in nature there are many operations that are far more than mechanical. Nature is not simply an organic body like a clock, which… — Unknown Author
The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of a given… — Robert Mayer
[Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even of very frequently… — Unknown Author
No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted… — Paul Feyerabend
This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the extent… — Edmond Halley
Facts are certainly the solid and true foundation of all sectors of nature study ... Reasoning must never find itself contradicting definite facts; but reasoning… — Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur
It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of… — Paul Feyerabend
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste time… — Marin Mersenne
Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware… — Ernest Nagel
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is… — A.J. Ayer
Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as AIDS or bird… — Unknown Author
I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery… — Allan Sandage
If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to. — Benjamin Franklin
The ability to stand by one's principles, to live with integrity and faith according to one's belief-that is what matters, that is the difference between… — Howard W. Hunter
There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different things at different… — Louis Adamic
Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles. — Roger Babson
Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys… — Ezra Taft Benson
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred. — Daniel Berrigan
It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time. — Mignon McLaughlin
He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them. — Confucius
Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is far more than… — Ezra Taft Benson
The price of peace is righteousness. Men and nations may loudly proclaim, 'Peace, peace,' but there shall be no peace until individuals nurture in their… — Ezra Taft Benson

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