"The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . . ."

-- Antoine Lavoisier

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“My ***** is doing as much to keep me alive as my brain.”
“A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.”
“I can tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the American people think. There's going to be an awful lot more body bags.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I'd be out shooting all the time. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you.”
“They usually show movies on a flight like that.”
“England expects that every man will do his duty.”

Source : Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.149, Cambridge University Press
“Israel is our only true ally in the Mideast, and supporting it is the only moral thing for the United States to do.”
“I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of the alleged facts which are investigated by Psychical Researchers. I am wholly impenitent about this. The scientists in question seem to me to confuse the Author of Nature with the Editor of Nature; or at any rate to suppose that there can be no productions of the former which would not be accepted for publication by the latter. And I see no reason to believe this.”

Source : "The Mind and Its Place in Nature".

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