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  1. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ Between the World and Me

    The older poets were Ethelbert Miller, Kenneth Carroll, Brian Gilmore. It is important that I tell you their names, that you know that I have never achieved anything alone.
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  2. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ Crime and Punishment

    Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.
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  3. Richard P. Feynman _ The Meaning of It All:

    If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind of tendency for movement, a kind of motility, let us call it an 'oomph,' this theory could explain a number of other phenomena as well. So this is a good theory, is it not? No. It is nowhere near as good as the proposition that the planets move around the sun under the influence of a central force which varies exactly inversely as the square of the distance from the center. The second theory is better because it is so specific; it is so obviously unlikely to be the result of chance. It is so definite that the barest error in the movement can show that it is wrong; but the planets could wobble all over the place, and, according to the first theory, you could say, 'Well, that is the funny behavior of the 'oomph.
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  4. Richard P. Feynman _ Surely You're Joking, Mr.

    Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can-if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong-to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it. There is also a more subtle problem. When you have put a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate theory, you want to make sure, when explaining what it fits, that those things it fits are not just the things that gave you the idea for the theory; but that the finished theory makes something else come out right, in addition.
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  5. Richard Rhodes _ The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    {Chemist Michael} Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to take it or leave it, in whole or in part; believers in astrology, Marxism and virgin birth abound. But "no one can become a scientist unless he presumes that the scientific doctrine and method are fundamentally sound and that their ultimate premises can be unquestionably accepted.
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  6. Gregory Maguire _ Wicked: The Life and Times of

    Animals in pens have lots of time to develop theories", said the Cow, "I've heard more than one clever creature draw a connection between the rise of tiktokism and the erosion of traditional Animal labour. We weren't beasts of burden, but we were good reliable labourers. If we were made redundant in the workforce, it was only a matter of time before we'd be socially redundant too.
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  7. Bret Easton Ellis _ American Psycho

    It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.
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  8. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle _ Sherlock Holmes

    It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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  9. Madeleine L'Engle _ A Wrinkle in Time

    Do you think things always have an explanation? "Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
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  10. Madeleine L'Engle _ A Circle of Quiet

    It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.
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  11. Iain M. Banks _ Surface Detail

    The trick, he supposed, was never to lose sight of the theoretical possibility while not for a moment taking the idea remotely seriously.
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  12. Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore

    In ancient times people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half."
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