“ The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated. ”
- Albert Low- Copy
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“ Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision. ”
- Stephen Jay Gould- Copy
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“ It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. ”
- Arthur Conan Doyle- Copy
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“ Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough — as most wrong theories are! ”
- H. G. Wells- Copy
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“ Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be. ”
- Paul Feyerabend- Copy
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“ Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience. ”
- Paul Feyerabend- Copy
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“ What shortens the life-span of the existing truth is the volume of hypotheses offered to replace it; the more the hypotheses, the shorter the time span of the truth. ”
- Robert Maynard Pirsig- Copy
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“ Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? ”
- Stephen Hawking- Copy
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“ I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes. ”
- Billy Joel- Copy
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“ Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. ”
- Edith Hamilton- Copy
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“ To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts. ”
- H.L. Mencken- Copy
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“ The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life. ”
- Richard Dawkins- Copy
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“ That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question. ”
- Talcott Parsons- Copy
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“ It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory. ”
- Ecclesiastes- Copy
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“ There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory. ”
- Kenneth Miller- Copy
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“ There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God. ”
- Richard Thompson- Copy
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“ It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind… we're in it together. ”
- Chick Corea- Copy
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“ Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being — much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund. ”
- Garrison Keillor- Copy
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“ The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth — that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth — that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. ”
- H.L. Mencken- Copy
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“ The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth — that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usu. ”
- H.L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Probable-Possible, my black hen, She lays eggs in the Relative When. She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now Because she's unable to postulate how. ”
- Frederick Winsor- Copy
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