Important Quote by Richard M. Nixon

We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.

— Wassily Leontief

In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to…

— Stephen Hawking

Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested.

— John Henry Holland

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

— George Eliot

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit…

— David Hume

Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.

— Jean-Martin Charcot

Consistent accuracy is virtually an impossibility.

— Kishore Bansal

Predictability can eventually be defended.

— Nick Nurse

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

— Richard Dedekind

This is how proofiness works. The assertion is more important than the evidence itself.

— David Corn

The way our brain is wired up we only see what we believe is possible.

— Candace Pert

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

— Thomas Huxley