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Henri Poincaré declared, of the mathematical calculus of probability, that without it ‘science would be impossible’ (Poincaré, 1952: 186). And Bertrand Russell was equally forthright: ‘we cannot understand scientific method,’ he said,
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“The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity.”
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“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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“A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established and unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based... To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy.”
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“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
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“Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.”
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