One finds the truth by making a hypothes... | David Douglass

Truth

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

- David Douglass

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I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

- Celine Dion

Other quotes by David Douglass

Facts Wrong

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

- David Douglass

Earth

However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

- David Douglass

Science

It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

- David Douglass

Love

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.

- David Douglass

Knowledge

As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.

- David Douglass

History

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

- David Douglass

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Truth Freedom

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

- Tacitus

Guitar Truth Nothing

Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players.

- Bill Kreutzmann

Truth

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

- William Tecumseh Sherman

Truth People

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

- Paul Scott

Truth End

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

- Ellis Peters

Yield Truth

We are free to yield to truth.

- Horace