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[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly… — Jacob Bronowski
As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they… — Karl Popper
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the… — Thomas Paine
At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the… — William Osler
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What… — Alfred Binet
I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable. — Tim Ferriss
The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could… — Niels Bohr
During the time that [Karl] Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of imununology, I discovered that he and I were thinking about the… — Linus Pauling
Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I… — Wystan Hugh Auden
But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is… — Bertrand Russell
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a… — George Bernard Shaw
Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of… — Murray Gell-Mann
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it… — Andrew Wiles
The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can… — Kurt GÃ¶del
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely… — Richard Dawkins
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story. — Tom Clancy
I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is… — Michel de Montaigne
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to… — Walter Raleigh

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