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Percival Lowell

The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.

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genius percival lowell

Percival Lowell

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.

genius percival lowell

Percival Lowell

The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.

genius percival lowell

Percival Lowell

It seems to me that there is a good deal of ballyhoo about scientific method. I venture to think that the people who talk most about it are the people who do least about it. Scientific method is what working scientists do, not what other people or even they themselves may say about it. No working scientist, when he plans an experiment in the laboratory, asks himself whether he is being properly scientific, nor is he interested in whatever method he may be using as method.

genius percival lowell

Percival Lowell

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

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Percival Lowell

Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory.

genius percival lowell

Percival Lowell

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

genius percival lowell

Percival Lowell

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

genius percival lowell

Percival Lowell

Now when we think that each of these stars is probably the centre of a solar system grander than our own, we cannot seriously take ourselves to be the only minds in it all.

genius percival lowell

Percival Lowell

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you to beware of two opposite errors: of letting your imagination soar unballasted by facts, but on the other hand, of shackling it so solidly that it loses all incentive to rise.

genius percival lowell

Percival Lowell

That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.

genius percival lowell

Percival Lowell

Bright points in the sky or a blow on the head will equally cause one to see stars.

genius percival lowell

Percival Lowell

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.