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“The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.”

Quality Principles Virtue Activity Tests Vices Practicals Characteristics Englishmen Reluctance

Author:R. H. Tawney

“Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.”

Suffering Individual Numbers Principles Progress Tests Impact Excuse Indifference Enlightened

Book:In Place of Fear

Source: In Place of Fear

“While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.”

Kind May Stills Principles Waste Tests Discrimination Wasting Time Requirements Abiding Breeding Patents Good Breeding

Book:A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

“Such true worship will stand the test of Christ's great principle, “By their fruits you shall know them”. It sanctifies the Christian's life, and makes them walk with God, lifting them above fear and love of the world. It enables a Christian to show God to other folks. Such worship comes from heaven, and has the mark of God upon it.”

Knows World Shows Christian Heaven Christ Walks Principles Worship Tests And Love Mark Fruit Folks Lifting Love And Fear Sanctify Walking With God True Worship

Author:J. C. Ryle

“I believe the American people are more concerned with a man's views and abilities than with the church to which he belongs. I believe the founding fathers meant it when they provided in Article VI of the Constitution that there should be no religious test for public office. And I believe that the American people mean to adhere to those principles today.”

“Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities that in principle cannot be 'observed' are manipulated to produce a new phenomena [sic] and to investigate other aspects of nature.”

Reality Science Principles Produce Evidence Aspect Tests Strongest Realism Entity Hypothesis Ontology

Author:Ian Hacking

“The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his attitude towards the absurd consequences of the theories which he accepts, is indeterminate in many ways, ambiguous, and never fully separated from the historical background . This material is always contaminated by principles which he does not know and which, if known, would be extremely hard to test.”

Source: Against Method

“Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.”

Light Action Religion Principles Tests Resistance Ethical Passive Our Actions Religion And Politics Ethical Principles Passive Resistance

Book:Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

“... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are not testing; you are experimenting.”

Ifs Knows Answers Principles Cases Produce Tests Fundamentals Testing Fundamental Principles

Author:Brian Kernighan