{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Richard Feynman","tags":["evidence","explainability","imagination","pseudoscience","rationalization","rigor","science","scrutiny","theory"],"id":114130,"author_id":"Richard+Feynman"},{"text":"Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity.","author":"Gregory Bateson","tags":["duty","imagination","rigor"],"id":182607,"author_id":"Gregory+Bateson"},{"text":"Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark.","author":"Isaac Bashevis Singer","tags":["mercy","night","rigor","truth"],"id":222726,"author_id":"Isaac+Bashevis+Singer"},{"text":"Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny — and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do).","author":"Stephen Jay Gould","tags":["biology","evidence","evolution","objectivity","rationality","rigor","science","scrutiny"],"id":245053,"author_id":"Stephen+Jay+Gould"},{"text":"The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["philosophy","practice","rigor","thinking","thought"],"id":315391,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}