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The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal… — Roger Bacon
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. — Edward Abbey
In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant… — Vinoba Bhave
I would by all means have men beware, lest Ã†sop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at… — Francis Bacon
The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to… — William Whewell
Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no… — Gottfried Leibniz
It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have… — Robert Green Ingersoll
It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar, pioneered… — Niels Kaj Jerne
One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified absolutely.… — Carlos Castaneda
French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good… — James Howell
Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail. — Joan Blades
During my long investigation of these strange objects, I have seen many reports verified by Air Force Intelligence, detailed accounts by Air Force pilots, radar… — Donald Keyhoe
The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other… — Jeremy Renner
Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified,… — Mary Hart
All we need do with nuclear waste is dilute it to a low radiation level and sprinkle it over the ocean -- or even over… — Arthur B. Robinson
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published. — Jacques Barzun
No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are… — Mark Helprin
Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of its possibilities. This… — Henri Poincare
The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and… — Karl Popper

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