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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• When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.

  

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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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• He chanced a glance at her. She was not tearful; that was one of the many wonderful things about Ginny, she was rarely weepy. He had sometimes thought that having six brothers must have toughened her up.

  

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• A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

  

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• I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

  

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.
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• (Djinn are essentially vapor.) "I blew him away.

  

  Rachel Caine
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• I was in New York and I went to a meatball shop with my friend and there was paparazzi there and I thought, 'How did you know that someone was gonna come to this meatball shop?' But I was pregnant and I wanted a meatball sub and let me tell you, it was delicious.

  

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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