An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.
Physiological Disquisitions (1781), 148.
Pragmatic.
William Jones
Tag Archives: Uncertainty
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and part of premises.The truth depends on, and is only arrived at, by a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Erwin Chargaff
Mark Twain
Name of the greatest of all the inventors: Accident
Mark Twain
Henry David Thoreau
We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. We know not where we are.
NASA
In God we trust, all others bring data
A plaque in Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre
Erich Fried
Do not doubt him who tells you he is afraid, but be afraid of him who tells you he has no doubts.
