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Science Quotes by William James
- We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into…
- Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not…
- Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
- From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every…
- A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific…
- We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
- I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.
- Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods…
- Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences…
- The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
- Man lives for science as well as bread.
- The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot…
- Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling…
- Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of…
- 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…
- Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions…
- All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of…
- 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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- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
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- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov