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“[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue.”

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Samuel Williams, born on January 17, 1822, and died in 1907, was a renowned missionary. He spent many years in China spreading the Christian faith and making significant contributions to the development of the Chinese church. more

“If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists should be heard with specially close attention. Biologists work very close to the frontier between bewilderment and understanding. Biology is complex, messy and richly various, like real life; it travels faster nowadays than physics or chemistry (which is just as well, since it has so much farther to go), and it travels nearer to the ground. It should therefore give us a specially direct and immediate insight into science in the making.”

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“Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain goes up and the public sees us. The theatrical illusion is shattered if we ask what goes on behind the scenes. In real life discovery and justification are almost always different processes.”

Source: Induction and intuition in scientific thought

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