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Innovators are inevitably controversial.
Innovators are inevitably controversial.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground read more
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." read more
In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium read more
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomization, statistical significance, and standard deviations is less than illiterate; he is preconscious.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the read more
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
