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“Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.”

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To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations…

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The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about…

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It seems to me that there is a good deal of ballyhoo about scientific method. I venture to think that the people who talk most about it are the people who do least about it. Scientific method is what working scientists do, not what other people or even they themselves may say about it. No working scientist, when he plans…

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Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory.

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I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance ... Such…

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My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the…

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The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as…

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But ... the working scientist ... is not consciously following any prescribed course of action, but feels complete freedom to utilize any method or…

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The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who have had…

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“The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for…

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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

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In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations.

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Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make…

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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an…

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God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not be any easier on account of this, indeed it may be harder, even more urgent, but now you are centered, focused, clear. So this is where I am supposed to be. I always thought I was supposed to…

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