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• What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. ... If we are told that the same experiment will always produce the same result, that is all very well, but if when we try it, it does not, then it does not. We just have to take what we see, and then formulate all the rest of our ideas in terms of our actual experience.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Philosophy, Math, Ideas

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• If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs, that such Persons or things have, in former Times, had a being, certainly those Petrifactions may be allowed to be of equal Validity and Evidence, that there have been formerly such Vegetables or Animals. These are truly Authentick Antiquity not to be counterfeited, the Stamps, and Impressions, and Characters of Nature that are beyond the Reach and Power of Humane Wit and Invention, and are true universal Characters legible to all rational Men.

  Robert Hooke

  Character, Men, Animal

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• Making and cheerfully keeping our covenants gives validity and life to the vital sacred and saving ordinances we need to receive in order to obtain all that the Father hath.

  Linda K. Burton

  Father, Order, Giving

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• Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

  Paul Tsongas

  Father, Simple, Government

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• The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

  Criss Jami

  Thinking, Envy, Criticism

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.89, Criss Jami

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• In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires its own internal validity, its own integrity.

  Joseph C Zinker

  Integrity, Moving, Expression

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• It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Literature, World, Born

  Jeff Vandermeer (2007). “City of Saints and Madmen”, p.261, Spectra

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• I don't turn Britney Spears into a star. I have to spot that these people are going to be stars, in the future, and say, "Okay, these guys have cultural validity and they're going to pop."

  Joseph M. Kahn

  Stars, People, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ideas, Judging, Sole

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• Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

  Peter Drucker

  Decision, Tests, Causes

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.89, Routledge

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• Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?

  Pema Chodron

  Keys, Stories, Awareness

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Believe, Love Is, Bravery

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Branches, Opinion

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

  W. H. Auden

  Poet, Said, Reader

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• Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

  Romola Garai

  Character, Men, Males

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In an unhealthy way, I found a lot of validity in having always been a very good athlete, a very good baseball player, and I've since grown out of that place into a different perspective and learned how to live differently, thankfully, where baseball is certainly something that's very important to me. It's not who I am, though. It's just what I do.

  R.A. Dickey

  Baseball, Athlete, Player

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

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• No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story-amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.

  Henry Gee

  Mean, Scarcity, Stories

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• The scientific community, public health officials, and others have raised serious doubt about the steps taken to ensure the safety and efficacy of the herbal dietary supplements taken daily by millions of Americans, as part of a broader investigation, NYAG is reviewing the sufficiency of the measures manufacturers and retailers are taking to independently assess the validity of their representations and advertising in connection with the sale of herbal supplements.

  Eric Schneiderman

  Taken, Health, Safety

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• A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown, the problem to be solved, the mystery to be clarified. It is never a matter of civil war; even though of different opinions, or of different political leanings, scientists dispute each other, they compete, but they do not battle: they are bound together by a strong alliance, by the common faith "in the validity of Maxwell's or Boltzmann's equations," and by the common acceptance of Darwinism and the molecular structure of DNA.

  Primo Levi

  Strong, War, Acceptance

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• That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Christian, Becoming, Principles

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• The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.

  Bill Crawford

  Belief, Willingness, Values

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• We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because it confirms our sense of omnipresence as well as the validity of the material world.

  Fred Ritchin

  World, Levels, Have Faith

  Fred Ritchin (1990). “In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world”

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• The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better understand its validity for us.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Self, Law

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Great parts of our economy are directly dependent upon women having a weak self-concept. A multi-billion dollar fashion-cosmetic industry testifies to the validity of this approach. A woman who does not know who she is can be sold anything.

  Gabrielle Burton

  Confidence, Fashion, Self

  Gabrielle Burton (1972). “I'm Running Away from Home, But I'm Not Allowed to Cross the Street: A Primer of Women's Liberation”

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• From the beginning, there has been a tension in the reception of the Kantian idea of autonomy. If you emphasize the 'nomos' (the law), then you get one picture: the objectivity of ethics. If you emphasize the 'autos' - the self - you get the idea that we make the law. Kant never hesitated in his choice between the two emphases. He emphasizes the nomos (the universal and objective validity of the law).

  Allen W. Wood

  Self, Objectivity, Law

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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