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“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. ”
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“And so no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.”
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“Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.”
― The Philosophy Of The Inductive Sciences V1: Founded Upon Their History
― The Philosophy Of The Inductive Sciences V1: Founded Upon Their History
“every failure is a step to success!”
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“In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.”
― The Philosophy Of The Inductive Sciences V1: Founded Upon Their History
― The Philosophy Of The Inductive Sciences V1: Founded Upon Their History
“It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.”
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