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Mathematics is the Language of Science

“The exception proves that the rule is wrong. That is the principle of science.”

"Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness." — James Wilson (1790)

“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” ― Albert Einstein

“A coincidence of interests is always more powerful than a conspiracy.”

“The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today.”

There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science [pseudoscience]…It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty — a kind of leaning over backwards.

’The exception proves that the rule is wrong.’ That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation, that rule is wrong.”

“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” – Will Durant  

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” – H.L. Menchen