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• In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

  Michael Shermer

  Faith, Religious, Argument

  Michael Shermer (2010). “Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown”, p.197, Macmillan

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• A man must be able to affirm, I know for certain, that what I teach is the only Word of the high Majesty of God in heaven, his final conclusion and everlasting, unchangeable truth, and whatsoever concurs and agrees not with this doctrine, is altogether false, and spun by the devil.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Heaven, Devil

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.18

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• The correctness of any of our policies has always to be tested and is always being tested by the masses themselves. We ourselves constantly examine our own decisions and policies. We correct our mistakes whenever we find them. We draw conclusions from all positive and negative experiences and apply those conclusions as widely as possible. In these ways relations between the Communist party and the masses of the people are constantly being improved.

  Mao Zedong

  Mistake, Party, Negative Experiences

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• In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do.

  Donald Knuth

  Years, Facts, Projects

  "All Questions Answered". Notices of the AMS 49 (3), March 2002.

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• no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.

  Karl Popper

  Swans, White, Doe

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.4, Routledge

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• There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense study to make us sensible of its force, that was at first requisite for its invention. When we leave our closet, and engage in the common affairs of life, its conclusions seem to vanish, like the phantoms of the night on the appearance of the morning; and 'tis difficult for us to retain even that conviction, which we had attain'd with difficulty.

  David Hume

  Morning, Night, Silence

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.339, 谷月社

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• Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.

  David Hume

  Passion, Morality, Action

  David Hume (1874). “A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.235

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• No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.

  David Hume

  Discovery, Weakness, Limits

  David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1993). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.51, Hackett Publishing

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• After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds of the way through a film, you say, "Jeezus, is this a pile of crap! What did I ever see in it in the first place?" You have to shut off your brain and forge ahead, because by that time you're getting so brainwashed. Once I commit myself to a film I commit myself to that ending, whatever the motivations and conclusions are.

  Clint Eastwood

  Motivation, Two, Feelings

  Clint Eastwood, Kathie Coblentz (1999). “Clint Eastwood: Interviews”, p.43, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The last six years afforded me much time and food for thought. I came to the conclusion that the human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Race, Years, Two

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women in Beijing, China, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. August 31, 1995.

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• Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear to be fruitless, which nevertheless all aim at a common goal, all drive at a common result: namely, at a decision, a conclusion which alone can provide victory.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Goal, Effort, Decision

  Ferdinand Foch, Alphonse Grasset (1920). “Precepts and Judgments”

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• A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.

  Virginia Satir

  Growing, Body, Observation

  Virginia Satir (1967). “Conjoint Family Therapy”

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• Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified, but any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right.

  Robert Nozick

  Rights, Enforcement, Protection

  Anarchy, State, and Utopia preface (1974)

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• The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply held convictions about individual rights, the English have a natural taste for disorder.

  Anna Pavlova

  Rights, English History, Looks

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• I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems of tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Numbers, People

  Howard Zinn (2012). “Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009”, p.108, Haymarket Books

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• It is natural to men to judge of things less known, by some similitude they observe, or think they observe, between them and things more familiar or better known. In many cases, we have no better way of judging. And, where the things compared have really a great similitude in their nature, when there is reason to think that they are subject to the same laws, there may be a considerable degree of probability in conclusions drawn from analogy.

  Thomas Reid

  Men, Thinking, Law

  Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.236, Georg Olms Verlag

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• In [Aristotle's] formal logic, thought is organized in a manner very different from that of the Platonic dialogue. In this formal logic, thought is indifferent toward its objects. Whether they are mental or physical, whether they pertain to society or to nature, they become subject to the same general laws of organization, calculation, and conclusion - but they do so as fungible signs or symbols, in abstraction from their particular "substance." This general quality (quantitative quality) is the precondition of law and order - in logic as well as in society - the price of universal control.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Order, Law, Organization

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 136), 1964.

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• To discover the meaning of what is called "social justice" has been one of my chief preoccupations for more than 10 years. I have failed in this endeavour or rather, have reached the conclusion that, with reference to society of free men, the phrase has no meaning whatever.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Years, Justice

  "New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek, The Atavism of Social Justice (ch. 5), 1978.

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• In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

  Garry Kasparov

  Secret, Want, Chess

  "Learn Chess With Garry Kasparov: World Champion". Book by Garry Kasparov, 2003.

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• The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics is to fling aside,once and forever, the mazy and preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian school. Our English economists have been living in a fool's paradise. The truth is with the French school, and the sooner we recognize the fact, the better it will be for all the world, except perhaps the few writers who are far too committed to the old erroneous doctrines to allow for renunciation.

  William Stanley Jevons

  School, Forever, Fool

  William Stanley Jevons (1879). “Political Economy”

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• In life nothing is taken to its ultimate conclusion, life is a half-way house, a place of obligatory compromise; and, in dealing in logical conclusions, a man steps out of life -- or so it would be quite legitimate to argue.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Taken, Men, House

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• A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.

  Georg Cantor

  Science, Power, Accepted

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• If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, you nail it down. So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness".

  Max Delbruck

  Principles, Nails, Sloppiness

  Oral History Project Interview, California Institute of Technology Archives, pp. 76-77, oralhistories.library.caltech.edu. 1978.

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• I believe that we are a story-driven species and that we understand how things are put together, in the context of narrative. It's a shame that science hasn't been taught that way, in a long time. It's usually the fact completely devoid of any human experience or any idea of how the scientist came to that conclusion.

  Ann Druyan

  Believe, Ideas, Long

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson and Executive Producer Ann Druyan Talk COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY, Public Appetite for Science, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 17, 2014.

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• I think that America certainly has racism, I think that any industrialized country does. But when you see how many million fans Barack Obama has who are not black, it would lead one to the conclusion that millions of Americans are in fact not burdened by the albatross of racism.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Thinking, America

  "Henry Rollins - Recountdown Tour 2008 Update". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2008.

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