"Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn……" — Robert Burton
"Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and tools of probabilities. We have methods for analyzing and ranking opinion according to their likelihood of correctness. That is enough."
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Robert Burton
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45 Quotes by Robert Burton
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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to…
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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
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We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
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Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the…
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Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations.
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