Cleveland Abbe Quotes

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

Cleveland Abbe

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• I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.

  

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• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

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• My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.

  

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• Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.

  

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• Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

  

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• People don't care about questionnaires.

  

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• I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

  

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• Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

  

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• When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.

  

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• He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

  

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• We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.

  

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• Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

  

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• Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

  

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• I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.

  

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• Every casting director I've met is a woman.

  

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• There is talk that badminton may not make it as a sport in the 2020 Olympics. We must bear in mind that other sports are strongly lobbying to be included.

  

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• I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.

  

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• Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.

  

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• We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

  

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• The only thing lawful is non-violence. Violence can never be lawful in the sense meant here, i.e., not according to man-made laws, but according to the laws made by Nature for man.

  

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• I'm not a politician, I'm a musician. I care about giving people a place where they can go to enjoy themselves and to begin to live again. To the man you have to give the spirit, and when you give him the spirit, you have done everything.

  

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• True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

  

  Cleveland Abbe
  • Science
  • Inquiry
  • Hypotheses