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“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
― Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
― Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
“Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. ”
― Reconstruction in Philosophy
― Reconstruction in Philosophy
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
― The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
― The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ”
― The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action
― The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action
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