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A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.


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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.



The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.

The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.



In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.



The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.

The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.



If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.

If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.



The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.

The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.



Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.



A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.



I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth

I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth



The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.





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We live in relative world with relatives.

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He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.

He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.



... I believe true love arises only when two people are completely in sync with each other’s music. And dance with them.”-Michael to Sophia

... I believe true love arises only when two people are completely in sync with each other’s music. And dance with them.”-Michael to Sophia



Full of questions and pleas, her eyes seemed to be asking for rescue.

Full of questions and pleas, her eyes seemed to be asking for rescue.




Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.

Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.



Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?



Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.

Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.



If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation




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