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“Americans long thought that nature could take care of itself-or that if it did not, the consequences were someone else's problem. As we know now, that assumption was wrong; none of us is a stranger to environmental problems.”

Ifs Knows Long Problem Care Consequence Environmental Stranger Take Care Assumption Environmental Problems

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977

“It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.”

Needs Humans States Social Liberty Diversity Consequence Deeper Libertarian Assumption Association Intervention Social Life Human Needs

Book:For Reasons Of State

Source: For Reasons Of State

“The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow from it ; and by observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our assumption.”

Firsts Real Science Process Consequence Sight Appearance Complicated Observation Confused Assumption Observing Corrections Regularity Supposition Tracing

Book:A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Principles, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation

Source: A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Principles, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation