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“I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it be accepted even by one competent judge, it will be a considerable step in science. I therefore write this, in case of my sudden death, as my most solemn & last request, which I am sure you will consider the same as if legally entered in my will, that you will devote 400£ to its publication & further will yourself, or through Hensleigh [Wedgwood], take trouble in promoting it.”

Source: On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection

“Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.”

Form Results Steps Theory Failure Errors Trials Charm Steady Tempting Latent Detection Steps To Success

Book:Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England

Source: Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England

“A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.”

Needs Firsts Might Steps Theory Accomplish Improvement First Steps

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory.”

Order Steps Progress Expression Theory Simplicity Hypothetical Framing

Book:Miscellaneous Scientific Papers

Source: Miscellaneous Scientific Papers

“Second, I use inference from technical studies and theories in order to provide practical information for therapists. Those thoughts are several steps removed from scientific validity.”

Use Order Steps Study Information Theory Practicals Therapists Validity Inference

Author:Virgil Miller Newton

“The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.”

Looks Would Be Behinds Steps Sky Theory Doctrine Steps Forward Factual

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.”

Faces Grows Wonder Steps Forever Conditions Theory Reverence Mastery Perpetual Cultivating Natural Science

Author:Richard Powers

“The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.”