| Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. -- Thomas H. Huxley |
| Author:
Huxley, Thomas H.Era:
1825 |
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| There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health. -- Francis Bacon |
| Author:
Bacon, FrancisEra:
1561 |
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| The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. -- John Weiss |
| Author:
Weiss, JohnEra:
1818 |
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| We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that. -- Justus von Liebig |
| Author:
von Liebig, JustusEra:
1803 |
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| To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. -- Alexander Pope |
| Author:
Pope, AlexanderEra:
1688 |
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| Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. -- Pythagoras |
| Author:
PythagorasEra:
-582 |
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| Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. -- Marcus Aurelius |
| Author:
Aurelius, MarcusEra:
121 |
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| Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving. -- John Dewey |
| Author:
Dewey, JohnEra:
1859 |
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