Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

The conspiracy theory of society comes from abandoning god and then asking Who is in his place.

Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.

We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

Pakistan has made no mention of ending our tests. We have a missile program, and it is in the national interest whatever we want to do.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.

Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.

There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.

And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today.

I was not surprised by the results of the Horizon experiments, but I remain willing to observe and consider any and all other tests that are done under similarly precise conditions.

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.

The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered.

Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.

Aside from all that, we recall that antibodies to malaria and other diseases prevalent in Africa show up as HIV-positive on tests.

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.

I still have nightmares about taking tests.

The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like.