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“In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.”
Source : Ernst Hans Gombrich, Didier Eribon (1993). “Looking for answers: conversations on art and science”, Harry N Abrams Inc
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“While traditional BI is interested in the 'what and the where,' data scientists are interested in the 'how and why'.”
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“The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve biological problems. This will come in a few centuries. For the time being, the biologist has to face such concepts as orienting forces or morphogenetic fields. Owing to the scarcity of chemical data and to the complexity of life, and despite the progresses of biochemistry, the biologist is still threatened with vertigo.”
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“Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.”
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“There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.”
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“Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.”
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“Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.”
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“You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.”
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“I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.”
Source : Adolph Gottlieb, Robert M. Doty, Diane Waldman (1968). “Adolph Gottlieb”
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“When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity.”
