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The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their… — Hugh Nibley
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when… — Henry Ward Beecher
Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again. — Karl Popper
The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind. — Logan Pearsall Smith
When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror. — Paulo Coelho
When you're operating on uninvestigated theories of what's going on and you aren't even aware of it, you're in what I call "the dream." Often… — Byron Katie
We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in… — Eric Hoffer
The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary… — Walter E. Williams
[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile. — Edward Teller
We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated… — George W. Bush
All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself,… — Aldo Leopold
The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical… — David Lack
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge. — Isaac Asimov
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its… — Louis Kronenberger
I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion, nevertheless, because I… — Nicolaus Copernicus
It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they are the result… — Karl Popper
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
Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems… — Gian-Carlo Rota

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