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[On how to look for a new law of physics.]
First you guess. Don't laugh, this is the most important step. Then you
compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If it
disagrees with experience, the guess is wrong. In that simple statement
is the key to science. It doesn't matter how beautiful your guess is or
how smart you are or what your name is. If it disagrees with experience,
it's wrong. That's all there is to it.
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-Richard Feynman
Nova
"The Best Mind Since Einstein"
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The universe is not hostile, nor yet it is
friendly. It is simply indifferent.
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-John H. Holmes
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are
ignored.
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-Aldous Huxley
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In nature there are neither rewards nor
punishments; there are consequences.
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-Robert Ingersoll
"Some Reasons Why", 1881
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~After we came out of the
church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's
ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every
thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are
satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never
shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot
with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, 'I
refute it THUS.'
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-James Boswell
Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
Saturday, August 6, 1763
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Even the unabomber has some salient arguments
to make. Must we demolish all of your own beliefs when a Nazi tells you
2+2=4?
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-Eli Khamarov
Why You Can't Make It In America
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The Church says that the earth is flat, but
I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have
more faith in a shadow than in the Church.
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-Ferdinand Magellan
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The foolish reject what they see, not
what they think;
The wise reject what they think, not what they see.
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-Huang Po
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*When I disagree with a
rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will
learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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-John Galt, the hero in Ayn Rand's
Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Part Three : A is A, Ch. VII, "This Is John Galt Speaking"
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*What we think good, what
we should like, has no bearing whatever upon what is.
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-Bertrand Russell
Why I Am Not a Christian, and other essays
on religion and related subjects, 1957
"What I Believe", 1925
Paul Edwards, ed.
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