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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

“Every great religion on the planet, regardless of what spiritual or cultural tradition from which it is that it emerges, announces and declares that spiritual mastery is an open possibility for every member of the human race. If that is not true, then the highest promise of God is a lie.”

Ifs Humans Spiritual Lying Race Possibility Planets Promise Members Highest Tradition Human Race Mastery

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment.”

Humans Long Form Promise Commitment Tradition Democratic Campaigns Binding

Author:Antonin Scalia

“There is a tradition of "modernist" theology arising out of post-Kantian thought - Fichte was the real father of it, but Schleiermacher and others also developed it - which might have more promise if it had greater influence on popular religion.”

Ifs Real Might Father Greater Influence Promise Tradition Theology Posts Real Father

Author:Allen W. Wood