Quote by Edwin A. Abbott

All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice…

— Edmund Burke

“Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Here we begin frank speculation. And since we are speculating, we'll use those powerful pseudo-laws, the Principles of Mediocrity and Minimal Assumption.”

— Vernor Vinge

Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.

— Karl Popper

“Is it reasonable to assume that the jarring nature of a particular consequence might be the very thing that strong-arms us away from making…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Just because history says it isn't possible doesn't mean that there aren't exceptions.”

— Gail Carriger

“For every theory there has to be counterevidence--otherwise science wouldn't progress.”

— Haruki Murakami

“We must never assume that local practice conforms with state theory.”

— James C. Scott

“Circumstances occur automatically and scientifically and they dissipate according to the natural law.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“The more we try to explain sensibily these phenomena of history, the more senseless and incomphrensible they become for us.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we…

— Leo Tolstoy

“So we invent reasons for the unreasonable. We are rationalists of the irrational. It”

— Joyce Carol Oates