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Science Quotes by Chauncey Wright
- Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and…
- And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
- The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
- We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
- If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until…
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- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach