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+If you wish to strive for peace of soul, then believe; if you wish to
+be a devotee of truth, then inquire.
+ -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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+The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one
+day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and
+that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.
+ -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §11
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+[A] theory is falsifiable [(and therefore scientific) only] if the
+class of its potential falsifiers is not empty.
+ -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §21
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+I shall require that [a scientific system's] logical form shall be
+such that it can be singled out, by means of empirical tests, in a
+negative sense: it must be possible for an empirical scientific system
+to be refuted by experience.
+ -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §6
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+He wore trifocals. There was stratigraphy even in his glasses.
+ -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p364
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+"Old hypotheses never really die, they're like dormant volcanoes."
+ -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p313
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+"While geologists argue, the rocks just sit there and sometimes they
+seem to smile"
+ -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p304
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+[T]he question of whether Machines Can Think, [...] is about as
+relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.
+ -- Edsger W. Dijkstra "The threats to computing science"