If in their place we find a thing more precious growing
A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart delighting
A child whom we are teaching, a booklet we are writing
- -- Frederick Rükert _Wisdom of the Brahmans_
+ -- Frederick Rükert _Wisdom of the Brahmans_
[Hermann Hesse _Glass Bead Game_]
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Of course, there are ceases where only a rare individual will have the
system which had never before even been recognized as a system; then
such people often devote their lives to convincing other people that
the system really is there and that it aught to be exited from.
- -- Douglas R. Hofstadter _Gödel Escher Bach. Eternal Golden Braid_
+ -- Douglas R. Hofstadter _Gödel Escher Bach. Eternal Golden Braid_
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Fate and Temperament are two words for one and the same concept.
-- Novalis [Hermann Hesse _Demian_]
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
+ -- 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
+ -- 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 emperical tests, in a
negative sense: it must be possible for an emperical scientific system
to be refuted by experience.
- -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §6
+ -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §6
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It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was, of course,
completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death