"It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences."

-- Ernest Nagel

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“I had a werewolf morning. Awoke with a rum hangover, imagined blood on the walls, and prayed to god it was mine.”
“There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.”

Source : "Janis Ian's Controversial 'Society's Child'". "News and Notes" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. March 2, 2009.
“I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.”
“The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work.”
“I don't care what people think. people are stupid.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“But when I do book signings and personal appearances, the audiences are mostly white. Growing up here, I expected that and understand it. Black audiences won't come out for a white writer for the most part. It really is just a fact of life.”
“BEFORE THERE WAS BILLY COLLINS & TED KOOSER, THERE WAS EDGAR GUEST”
“People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.”

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