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IT HAS BEEN SAID and collected by BRIAN WILLIAMS* "I am concerned in this course to present the philosophical problems and not the solutions, because the solutions come and go but the problems remain."—Hoffding "The British are distinguished among the nations of modern Europe, on the one hand by the excellence of their philosophers, and on the other by their contempt for philosophy. In both respects they show their wisdom." —B. Russell "Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections . You can keep your sterile truth for yourself."—V. Pareto "My criticism of modern science is that it inhibits freedom of thought. If the reason is that it has found the truth and now follows it then I would say that there are better things than first finding, and then following, such a monster ."—P. Feyerabend "I would give my life for a man who is looking for truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks he has found truth."—L. Bunuel "Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors." —D. Hume "No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish."—D. Hume "The general principle remains, that an uncertain hypothesis cannotjustify a certain evil unless an equal evil is equally certain on the opposite hypothesis ."—B. Russell *Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OXI 3PS, England. Material appearing under this title is collected with the aim of making the serious a bit less serious, the ponderous a bit less heavy, and the reading hours a bit more fun. Toward this goal we invite a guest editor of this feature for each issue. Will readers volunteer to share their senses of humor by collecting or recollecting items that have brought smiles to their faces? We invite your participation. Originals are also welcomed. 210 Brian Williams ¦ It Has Been Said "If a thing is not worth doing, it is not worth doing well."—Anon. "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful. He studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful."—H. Poincaré "We do not suggest that science invented intellectual honesty, but we do suggest that intellectual honesty invented science."—J. Erikson "The object of all science, whether natural science or psychology, is to coordinate our experiences into a logical system."—A. Einstein "A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability . . . [Thermodynamics] is the only physical theory of universal content concerning which I am convinced that, within the framework of its basic concepts, it will never be overthrown."—A. Einstein "It is one of the novelties of human language that it encourages story telling and thus creative imagination. Scientific discovery is akin to explanatory story telling, to myth making and to poetic imagination."—K. Popper "Science . . . means unremitting endeavour and continually progressing development toward an aim which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp."—M. Planck "There are holes in the sky/Where the rain gets in,/But they're ever so small/ That's why rain is thin."—S. Milligan "The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken."—B. Russell "In science 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.'"—S. J. Gould "Mere polyhistory is a cyclopean erudition that lacks one eye, the eye of philosophy ."—I. Kant "Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind."—I. Lakatos "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." —A. Einstein "Science, in one aspect, is ordered technique, in another, it is rationalized mythology."—J. D. Bernal "Science is a balanced interaction of mind and nature...

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