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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
• My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative… — Martin Lewis Perl
• Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he… — Albert Einstein
• We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we… — Fisher Ames
• The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service… — Adolphe Quetelet
• We shall do well ever to remember, that Christianity is not a mere speculative theory, that is to inform the mind; but… — Charles Simeon
• When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas… — Gottfried Leibniz
• The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very… — John Desmond Bernal

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