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“I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body of knowledge,' but rather as a system of hypotheses; that is to say, as a system of guesses or anticipations which in principle cannot be justified, but with which we work as long as they stand up to tests, and of which we are never justified in saying that we know they are 'true' or 'more or less certain' or even 'probable.'”

Thinking Knows Looks Long Ideas Body Science Certain Principles Knowledge Tests Look Up Anticipation Hypothesis Justified Accustomed

Author:Karl Popper

“It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some, resemblance is everything and descent of little weight-in some, resemblance seems to go for nothing, and Creation the reigning idea-in some, descent is the key,-in some, sterility an unfailing test, with others it is not worth a farthing. It all comes, I believe, from trying to define the undefinable.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

“It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test new ideas on particle physics. The energies in the Big Bang were far higher than we can ever achieve on Earth. So by looking at evidence for the Big Bang, and by studying things like neutron stars, we are in effect learning something about fundamental physics.”

“Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves - there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? - are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help - can you face him honestly?).”

Men Looks War Matter Helping Body Running Faces Fall Lines Cities Pieces Fronts Bears Tests Asking Obvious Seeking Honestly Unexpected Comparison Coward Sprung Mortar

Author:James Fenton

“When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.”

Should Matter School Poor Effort Worry Sacrifice Tests Raises Desperate Score What Matters Test Scores

Author:Alfie Kohn

“Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.”

Persons Self Form Motivation Sports Tests Competition Meaningful Winner Medal Softball

Author:Al Oerter

“Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he's so sincere. Because, it is possible to be sincerely wrong. We can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity.”

Truth Mistake Judging Tests Entrepreneur Delusion Sincere Wrong Sincerity Sincerely Misconception

Author:Jim Rohn

“One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.”

People Needs Suffering Given Compassion Successful Honesty Achievement Comfortable Tests Mood Primaries Underprivileged

Author:Richard Hofstadter

“The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their careful observance of all the rules, their precious concern for status symbols, their strict legality, their pious patriotism... the haircut becomes the test of virtue in a world where Satan deceives and rules by appearances.”

“Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.”

Science Technology Alive Theory Tests Flaws Flawed

Author:Karl Popper

“The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.”

Behinds Tests Enjoyment Remembrance

Author:Logan Pearsall Smith

“When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls.”

Soul Body Earth Death Learning Dying Tests Graduates Shed Graduation Psychiatrist Inspirational Death

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror.”

Life Ends Inspiration Tests Luck Conqueror Beginners

Author:Paulo Coelho

“When you're operating on uninvestigated theories of what's going on and you aren't even aware of it, you're in what I call "the dream." Often the dream becomes troubling; sometimes it even turns into a nightmare. At times like these, you may want to test the truth of your theories by doing The Work on them. The Work always leaves you with less of your uncomfortable story. Who would you be without it? How much of your world is made up of unexamined stories? You'll never know until you inquire.”

Knows World Want May Made Sometimes Stories Dream Turns Theory Tests Uncomfortable Nightmare Times Like These

Author:Byron Katie

“We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.”

Needs Self Faces Change Self Esteem Confidence Prove Tests Crisis Prepared Self Confidence Esteem Radical Be Prepared Adjustment Trembling Subordinates Drastic Drastic Change

Author:Eric Hoffer

“The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary things with which we agree. The true test comes when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary things with which we disagree.”

People Liberty Rights Economic Commitment Economics Tests Agree Property Permit Disagree Private Property Property Rights

Book:More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well

Source: More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well

“[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.”

Firsts Stills Science Challenges Discovery Tests Chemistry Fragile Scar Biographies Laboratory Tubes

Author:Edward Teller

“We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated by further exploration will inspire our young people to study math, and science, and engineering and create a new generation of innovators and pioneers.”

“All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy.”

Able Science Tests Accounts Astronomy Prophecy Criteria Newton Infallible Eclipse Prophetic Kepler

Book:Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Marginalia (5 v.)

Source: Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Marginalia (5 v.)

“Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself, but not the capacity to live in high density without befouling and denuding his environment, nor a conviction that such capacity, rather than such density, is the true test of whether he is civilized.”

Source: Game Management 118

“The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical race, but the origin of genetic segregation. The test of species-formation is whether, when two forms meet, they interbreed and merge, or whether they keep distinct.”

Two Problem Form Science Differences Levels Race Tests Fundamentals Species Appearance Arise Segregation Formation Genetics Origin Of Species

Book:Darwin's Finches

Source: Darwin's Finches

“To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.”

Way Science Perfect Knowledge Theory Gains Tests Instruments Philosopher Greek Imperfect Impress Greek Philosopher

Book:The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Physical Sciences

Source: The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Physical Sciences

“Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its non-mystical methods; above all-which perhaps most explains the expert's sovereignty-of external verities; of traffic-cop morality and rabbit-test truth.”

Age Science Faith Morality Evidence Tests Accounts Method Experts Superstitions Cop Traffic Mystical Sovereignty Inquiry Rabbits Infallibility

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion, nevertheless, because I knew that others before me had been granted the liberty of imagining whatever circles they wished to represent the phenomena of the stars, I thought that I likewise would readily be allowed to test whether, by assuming some motion of the Earth's, more dependable representations than theirs could be found for the revolutions of the heavenly spheres.”

Source: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

“It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they are the result of risky predictions... A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice. Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or refute it.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Looks Science Easy Results Virtue Events Theory Tests Vices Genuine Ease Predictions Confirmation Verification

Author:Karl Popper

“All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be revised if found to be unsatisfactory. Hence, a change of mind in a scientist, and particularly in a great scientist, is not only not a sign of weakness but rather evidence for continuing attention to the respective problem and an ability to test the hypothesis again and again.”

Ifs Mind Made Problem Science Found Ability Attention Forever Weakness Evidence Tests Scientist Interpretation Again And Again Continuing Tested Hypothesis Great Scientist Mind Changing

Author:Ernst Mayr

“Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, "How did he do it? He must be a genius!"”

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Author:Gian-Carlo Rota

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because they have withstood the tests of experiment and have emerged triumphant, were once speculative hypotheses.”

Matter Science Courses Imagination Tests Experiments Conception Employed Hypothesis Triumphant Audacity Advances In Science

Book:James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

“In recent weeks we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them. This is deeply troubling, and a warning sign that should prompt all of us to think through these issues very carefully.”

Thinking Should Humans Science Issues Week Tests Scientist Experiments Warning Tubes Prompts Embryos Warning Signs

Author:George W. Bush

“There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is shaken with bone-black, filtered and tested with starch paste. If the colorless solution does not turn the starch blue, the experiment shows how completely charcoal extracts iodine from aqueous solution. If the starch turns blue, the experiment shows that the solution, though apparently colorless, still contains iodine which can be detected by means of a sensitive starch test.”

Ifs Way Trying Mean Doe Stills Shows Science Turns Black Water Prove Solutions Tests Blue Bones Experiments Sensitive Tested Charcoal Colorless Iodine

Book:Applied Colloid Chemistry, General Theory

Source: Applied Colloid Chemistry, General Theory

“The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”

“We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.”

Mind States America Law Religion Church Religious Forever Atheism Office Tests Presidential Permit Inquisition

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Long conversations with pals when neither you nor they have had a drink can be a test of palship.”

Long Humor Funny Communication Drink Conversation Tests Pals Long Conversations

Book:Peace Kills

Source: Peace Kills

“Religious faith to W. H. Bragg was the willingness to stake his all on the hypothesis that Christ was right, and test it by a lifetime's experiment in charity.”

Christ Religious Atheism Tests Lifetime Charity Experiments Willingness Stakes Hypothesis Religious Faith

Author:Guglielmo Marconi

“Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know it is to know it from within, from your witnessing self. The more you become aware, the more you can watch your mind - its subtle functioning. The functioning is tremendously complex and beautiful. Mind is the most complex phenomenon on the earth, the most subtle flowering of consciousness. If you want to really understand what the mind is, then you will have to detach yourself from your mind, and you will have to learn how to be just a witness. That's what meditation is all about.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Mind Self Hands Earth Beautiful Force Consciousness Watches Meditation Tests Complexes Witness Subtle Phenomenon Elusive Tubes Flowering Beautiful Mind

Author:Rajneesh

“I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his own head, a set of options and imaginative alternatives. His role is that of a scientist, whether on safari or in his laboratory, faced with an unknown terrain or subject. All he can do is to devise various hypotheses and test them against the facts.”

Knows Feels Art Facts Science Can Do Moral Knowledge Roles Subjects Reader Offers Tests Scientist Various Alternatives Hypothesis Imaginative Laboratory Stance Terrain Safari

Author:J. G. Ballard

“America you are beautiful . . . and blessed . . . . The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless. If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life.”

Source: A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World

“That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness: to respect every human person, especially the weak and most defenseless ones, those as yet unborn.”

Humans Persons Reason America Conditions Greatness Survival Dignity Weak Tests Ultimate Abortion Unborn Defenseless

Author:Pope John Paul II

“The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.”

“Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.”

Book Life Is Choices Path Teaching Tests Aging Multiple Essays Exam Open Book Multiple Choice Following Your Own Path

Author:Alan Blinder

“A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon facts. ... What's inside is every fairy-tale monster, a brutal ogre, a bloodthirsty werewolf, an elegant vampire, a scheming devil, a bullying giant, a sneering troll, or maybe just an abusive stepfather.”

“The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.”

Character Tests Intellect Stupidity Silly

Author:John K. Fairbank

“I'm in favour of drug tests, just so long as they are multiple choice.”

Long Funny Choices Drug Basketball Tests Multiple Favour Funny Basketball Multiple Choice

Author:Kurt Rambis

“The Finals are about a test of wills.”

Basketball Tests Finals

Author:Bill Laimbeer

“The triple-double is just a stat. It's a test of your strength and stamina and playing ability, really.”

Ability Basketball Tests Stamina

Author:Oscar Robertson

“Somehow it always seems that the crummier the test, the higher the heritability it produces.”

Seems Produce Higher Gay Tests

Author:Peter Schonemann

“Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.”

Littles Art Science Political Social Theory Concern Tests Accounts Bases Complicated Secure Statistics Falsehood Hypothesis Dynamics

Author:Adolphe Quetelet

“This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation.”

Jobs Tests Raises Appreciation Promotion

Author:Robert Benchley

“The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.”

Country Tests Loyalty Citizenship Good Citizen Good Citizenship American Citizenship

Author:Bainbridge Colby

“To be true to one's self is the ultimate test in life. To have courage and the sensitivity to follow your hidden dreams and stand tall against the odds that are bound to fall in your path. Life is too short and precious to be dealt with in any other fashion. This thought I hold dear to my heart and I always try to be true to myself and others that I encounter along the way.”

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