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“When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment of probable truth. Confirmed hunches, of course, are more upbeat than discredited hypotheses. Since the worst traditions of "popular" writing falsely equate instruction with sweetness and light, our promotional literature abounds with insipid tales in the heroic mode, although tough stories of disappointment and loss give deeper insight into a methodology that the celebrated philosopher Karl Popper once labeled as "conjecture and refutation.”

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.”

Men Love Life Young Girl Literature Youth Promise Young Man

Book:The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life

Source: The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life

“It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.”

Evil Literature Power Promise Weak Glitter Good Against Evil

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.”

Literature Beauty Talent Promise Fifteen

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.”

Past Literature Given Broken Promise Broken Promises Breaking Promises Keeping Promises Kept Promises Promises That Are Broken

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.”

People Important Remember Father Literature Progress Promise Disappointment Keepers

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?”

Literature Promise Future Threat Switching Kept Promises Invisible Monsters Promise Of The Future

Book:Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.”

People Writing Trying Kind Made Book Literature Promise All Kinds Good Writers

Book:Ever the Winds of Chance

Source: Ever the Winds of Chance

“Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.”

Literature Sides Promise Advantage Perceive Controversy Impartiality

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.”

Made Literature Food Broken Promise Broken Heart Pie Dessert Broken Promises

Author:Jonathan Swift

“It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.”

Literature Promise Taste Dignity Curiosity Curious Paradise Civilized Creeds

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.' 'I'm not sure a book has ever changed me,' said Will. 'Well there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep-' 'Only the very weak minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,' said Tessa, determined not to let him run wildly off with the conversation.”

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.”

Men Love Lying Literature Promise Love Always

Book:Love

Source: Love