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Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of…
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I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body…
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It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that…
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The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.…
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Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
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It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical…
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The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural…
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Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is…
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The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but…
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Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention…
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In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that…
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It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they…
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
— Samuel Butler
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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion,…
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings…
— Mark Twain
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Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects…
— John Ruskin
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A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
— Karl Kraus
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This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of…
— Joseph Lancaster
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For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and…
— Tycho Brahe
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When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.
— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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