Edward Humes Quotes
If a proposition cannot be falsified, it is not scientific.
Edward Humes
Quotes to Explore
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People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are too fat to dare to die.
Lao Tzu
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I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne
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The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.
Talcott Parsons
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It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us.
David Lilienthal
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Only flies have true halteres. In fact, the scientific term for flies, 'diptera,' means 'two wings.' Most insects, including bees, have two pairs of wings for a total of four. In flies, the hindwing pairs have been transformed through evolution into the halteres.
Michael Dickinson
