"If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate field'. It claims that the whole range of phenomena, mental as well as physical-the entire universe-is its field. It asserts that the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge."

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Source : Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.24, Cosimo, Inc.

Karl Pearson

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“Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.”
“The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.”

Source : Louis Sachar (2011). “The Cardturner”, p.313, A&C Black
“Sometimes you don't know why you're doing something. You're intuitively following, to see where it leads.”
“We make to ourselves pictures of facts. The picture is a model of reality”

Source : Wright Morris (1975). “About fiction: reverent reflections on the nature of fiction with irreverent observations on writers, readers & other abuses”, HarperCollins Publishers
“You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
“One day I was 17 years old and I ended up trying to commit suicide and I ended up in the hospital. As a teenager, that was a really scary thing.”

Source : "Justin Bieber's Mom Has Her Own Story To Tell". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
“It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.”
“To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.”

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