"The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis."

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Source : William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

William Kingdon Clifford

#Independent Quotes #Science Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“And I realized that Iâ€™d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.”
“My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there... was in contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world.”
“The best part of being on the platform that we are is being able to influence and affect so many people.”
“Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.”

Source : JOHN STUART BLACKIE (1876). “SONGS OF RELIGION AND LIFE”
“What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret.”
“Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up.”
“Find good in what the world says is evil.”
“The kid looks good in his first game.”

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