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• There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot in principle be refuted, by falsifying some of the conclusions which can be deduced from them.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Principles, Conclusion

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.25, Routledge

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• I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you.

  Danielle Dax

  People, Musical, Important

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• Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

  Craig Reucassel

  Silence, Gross, Misinterpretation

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• The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Men, Views

  Aristotle (2016). “Metaphysics”, p.274, Aristotle

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• One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls Man the only animal that soils its own nest. Every animal soils its nest with the products of its metabolism if unable to move away. Space technology gives us for the first time the freedom to leave our nest, at least for certain functions, in order not to soil it.

  Krafft Arnold Ehricke

  Moving, Men, Emotional

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• The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book in even a limited department of science can be consulted with much profit. This change, of course, has its advantages for the initiated, in securing precision and concisement of statement; but it tends to narrow the field in which an investigator can labour, and it cannot fail to become, in the future, a serious impediment to wide inductive generalisations.

  Thomas George Bonney

  Book, Science, Vocabulary

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• For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.

  Janine Benyus

  Writing, Impact, Discipline

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• It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not protect any statement in science against falsification.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Scientific Method, Way

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.33, Routledge

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• The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

  John Corigliano

  Past, Revolution, Ultimate

  "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.

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• When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

  Henry Flynt

  Self, Problem, Obvious

  "Towards an Acognitive Culture". Interview with Stewart Home, www.stewarthomesociety.org. March 08, 1989.

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• I like to stand out and make a statement.

  Cindy Gallop

  Standing Out

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• The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

  Drew Curtis

  Dumb, Crowds, Ridiculous

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• I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.

  Joe Klein

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "Joe Klein on the State of Democracy in America". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 22, 2006.

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• Nothing can be said, including this statement, that has not been said before.

  John Berendt

  Said, Including

  John Berendt (2006). “The City of Falling Angels”, p.39, Penguin

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• Mandatory auditor rotation is designed to address a potential conflict of interest between a public company and its auditor. Because an auditor is hired and paid by the public company it audits, the auditor's desire to maintain a good relationship with its client could conflict with its duty to rigorously question the client's financial statements.

  Robert Pozen

  Relationship, Desire, Auditors

  "An Intermediate Approach to the Auditor Rotation Issue" by Robert Pozen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

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• Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. It has the capacity that no other colour has, to make 'nothing' visible.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Giving, Feelings

  Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter (2000). “Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977”, ABRAMS

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• The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.

  Nicholson Baker

  Sympathy, Voice, Rooms

  Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.65, Vintage

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• But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

  Talcott Parsons

  Facts, Failing, Reason

  Talcott Parsons (1967). “Structure of Social Action”, Free Pr

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• I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as a general statement, death is leave-taking. And then ideologically: a leave-taking from a specific doctrine of salvation and, beyond that, from the illusion that unacceptable circumstances of life can be changed by this conventional expedient of violent struggle.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Struggle, Different

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

  Brian Perkins

  Sound, Ordinary, Facts

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• This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love, Unique, Law

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician.

  Alexei Navalny

  Order, Goal, Leader

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• As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present.

  Alexander Kluge

  Believe, Communication, Mean

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• I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal statement that has significance to me and resonates with biographical detail about not only my career, but all the people that I've worked with in my career. All of it's riddled, on- and off-camera, with people I've known and worked with for decades.

  Mark Hamill

  Book, Thinking, Careers

  "An Interview With Mark Hamill" by Ken P., www.ign.com. February 3, 2004.

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• Be aware of the words that go into your mind, both conscious and unconscious, because words and ideas can be great tools for your mind to use in coming to appropriate decisions. Remember that a statement spoken in spiritual consciousness can contain great spiritual power. Speaking powerful words of love changes things and outer circumstances as well as consciousness itself.

  John Templeton

  Spiritual, Powerful, Ideas

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