Quote by Denis Diderot
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to d

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. – Denis Diderot

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There are things I cant force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. – Denis Diderot

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. – Denis Diderot

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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. – Denis Diderot

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Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of speculation; but which ought to be called Gambling. – William Cobbett

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The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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The narrower the mind, the broader the statement. – Ted Cook

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Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development. – Alexander Herzen

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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you dont just turn it off one day. – Chinua Achebe

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