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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
Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of… — Fritjof Capra
The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are… — Harry Frankfurt
Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but… — Rudolf Carnap
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions. The complexity and… — Andrei Sakharov
Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only… — Michel de Montaigne
Spiritual master is representative of God. Similarly, king is also representative of God. The father is also representative of God. These are the statements of… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on the domestic front. I would… — Vladimir Putin
Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery,… — David Pilbeam
It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they… — George Gaylord Simpson
A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements. — Robert Foster Bennett
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find… — John D. Barrow
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts. — Bergen Evans
Well, I don't like to make outlandish statements. Not all the time. But Wimbledon would have beaten them 10-0. — Eamon Dunphy
I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown. — Tom Stoppard
There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made. — Frank Knight
Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics. — Chris Mooney
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more… — Karl Popper
Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we must… — Thomas Kuhn
The master and the student on the journey to mastery, knows that the illusions are the illusions, decides why they are there, and then consciously… — Neale Donald Walsch

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