Tentative Quotes
55 quotes by 53 authors
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The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work.…
— Jerome Bruner
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James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to…
— Alister E. McGrath
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A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
— Epictetus
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I think we came out the last couple of game and have been able to get it going. The first couple we were tentative a…
— Jarome Iginla
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The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition,…
— John Stuart Mill
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Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to…
— George Wald
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[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The old scientific ideal of episteme - of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge - has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes…
— Karl Popper
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All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be revised if found…
— Ernst Mayr
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That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It…
— Arthur David Ritchie
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After a lifetime in this subject, I have concluded that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is one reasonable tentative approach to putting the best-documented and most puzzling…
— Jerome Clark
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Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure, depressive, passive-aggressive, and…
— Camille Paglia
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
— Epictetus
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From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.
— Elizabeth Fishel
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See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one,…
— Ezra Pound
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Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger.…
— Jon Krakauer
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The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments to the same…
— Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego is…
— Fritjof Capra
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We must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot afford to nurture and educate many children never to have more than…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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