Source: 1960s, Scientific method: optimizing applied research decisions, 1962, p. 1.
“Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”
Moralités (1932)
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Caxtoniana: Hints on Mental Culture (1862)
As quoted in World Authors 1950–1970 (1975) by J. Wakeman, pp. 221–223
“As we all know, blinking lights means science.”
Detractors sometimes claim Darwin thought that the cell was an undifferentiated mass of protoplasm. Anyone reading the passage above will realize that Darwin thought no such thing.
Source: Insectivorous Plants (1875), chapter III: "Aggregation of the Protoplasm within the Cells of the Tentacles", page 40 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=55&itemID=F1217&viewtype=image
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul, p. 69