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Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.


Bill Gaede


#fact #gaede #hypothesizing #mathematical-physics #prediction

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.


Bill Gaede


#peer-review #physics #science #scientific-language #experience

When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real time than on facts, history, logic, or learned experience.


Quin Hillyer


#experience #facts #history #logic #political-candidates

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.


Adam Smith


#economics #family

It was a wonderful experience. She mistrusted his very slumbers--and she seemed to think I could tell her why! Thus a poor mortal seduced by the charm of an apparition might have tried to wring from another ghost the tremendous secret of the claim the other world holds over a disembodied soul astray amongst the passions of this earth. The very ground on which I stood seemed to melt under my feet. And it was so simple too; but if the spirits evoked by our fears and our unrest have ever to vouch for each other's constancy before the forlorn magicians that we are, then I--I alone of us dwellers in the flesh--have shuddered in the hopeless chill of such a task.


Joseph Conrad


#literature-quotes #lord-jim #metaphysics #experience

History, practical experience, common sense and economic theory all agree: economic competition is probably one of the greatest ideas humans ever came up with. When people compete to achieve the same goal, great things seem to happen that otherwise would not. Things get done faster, cheaper, and better; new methods for lifting a weight or quenching a thirst are invented; the average guy ends up with more of the stuff he likes at a lower price than before. That is why, in the end, socialism collapsed like a rotten wall: it did not allow its people to compete and, as a result, it not only made their economic life miserable, but strangled their hearts and souls.


Michele Boldrin


#experience

Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race, so that no matter how many experiments you have done on corpses, you have not thereby immposd a limit on the nature of events so that in the future they could not vary.


Gottfried Leibniz


#leibniz #regression #statistics #experience

... It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.


A.J. Ayer


#experience

The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.


Alan Beattie


#history #experience

The Bible says that the earth is immovable. It cannot be moved. So now is your chance to prove your point. Run outside and move the earth. Perhaps you and your friends could jump on it, or find a rocky outcrop and push it together. Maybe after that little experiment you will concede that the earth is immovable.


Ray Comfort


#bible #geocentrism #experience