Quotations Worth Reading

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Thought these would be of excellent use to the list:

  "Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." -- P.B. Medawar, 1969,
_Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought_.

  "Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather,
objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting
them to especially harsh scrutiny-and also in a willingness to revise or
abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do)." --
Stephen Jay Gould in the essay "The Proof of Lavoisier's Plates" (from
_The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural
History_, Harmony Books, 368 pages, reprinted from _Natural History_).

  "The primary role of the geologist is to recognize the existence of 
 phenomena before trying to explain them." -- B.M. Keilhau, 1828.

  Cheers,

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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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