"All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, to postpone action that it appears to demand at a given time. Who knows, asks Robert Browning, but the world may end tonight? True, but on available evidence most of us make ready to commute on the 8:30 next day."

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Source : "The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation?" by Austin Bradford Hill, 1965.

Austin Bradford Hill

#Upset Quotes #Doe Quotes #Tonight Quotes

“And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.”
“Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reintegrate into our lives and serve us again as productive members of our civilian community.”
“Repentance follows hasty counsels.”
“Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.”

Source : "When Good Fellows Get Together". Book by James O'Donnell Bennett, p. 156, 1908.
“I'm sorry to myself, for treating me worse than I would anybody else.”

Source : Song: Sorry To Myself, Album: Feast On Scraps, 2002
“There are only three requirements for success. First, decide exactly what it is you want in life. Second, determine the price that you are going to have to pay to get the things you want. And third, and this is most important, resolve to pay that price.”
“I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.”

Source : "Laura Poitras on the Crypto Tools That Made Her Snowden Film Possible" by Andy Greenberg, www.wired.com. October 15, 2014.
“Ive never met a popcorn ball I didnt like.”

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