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- True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they… — Cleveland Abbe
- Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the… — James Clerk Maxwell
- Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being… — Bertrand Russell
- Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is… — John Dewey
- By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original… — Thomas Hobbes
- In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses,… — Isaac Newton
- Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces… — Isaac Newton
- A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted… — Bill Moyers
- Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential,… — James Madison
- I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence,… — George H. Smith
- The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason… — A.J. Ayer