“The exception proves that the rule is wrong. That is the principle of science.”
"Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness." — James Wilson (1790)
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” – Albert Einstein
“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a...
“A coincidence of interests is always more powerful than a conspiracy.”
If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.”
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There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science [pseudoscience]…It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty — a kind...
Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech." — Benjamin Franklin (1722)
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” – Archimedes
’The exception proves that the rule is wrong.’ That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation, that rule is wrong.”
“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” – Will Durant
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” – H.L. Menchen
“No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.” –Robert A. Heinlein
“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.” – Bertrand Russell, “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish”
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