"When there are conflicts of observation, when experiments cannot be replicated, scientists may then retreat to a study of the various specific observations so as to explain the conflict, in the course of which they would make use of the concept of observation, or of some specification of that concept."

-- Ernest Sosa

#Use Quotes #May Quotes #Retreat Quotes

“Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?”
“I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are.”

Source : "Actor Lela Loren: Getting grounded, sweating it out, and loving yourself". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 21, 2015.
“I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life. Perhaps death is sacred, and I've profaned it. Oh, what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of, the formula for life. Think of the power, to create a man. And I did, I did it, I created a man. And who knows, in time I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race, I might even have found the secret of eternal life.”
“Went from being hated on, to Niggas try to go down the same road I made it on. Aint no love lost but aint no love shown, so now when ***** call i just don not pick up the phone.”
“Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.”
“When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit”
“Economics, over the years, has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real world. Economists, by and large, do not study the workings of the actual economic system. They theorize about it. As Ely Devons, an English economist, once said in a meeting: 'If economists wanted to study the horse, they wouldn't go around and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, `What would I do if I were a horse?' '”

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