“We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.”
Nelson Goodman
Ways of Worldmaking
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“Simplicity without a name Is free from all external aim.”
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Tao Te Ching
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Alfred North Whitehead
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“Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.”
Karl R. Popper
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