Frederick L. Barry Quotes

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To an ordinary person a fact is a fact, and that is all there is to be said about it.

Frederick L. Barry

In short, these fundamental elements of scientific knowledge assimilate and grow, coalesce and separate and recombine, shrink and wane, die and come to life again; and while they persist they are never more than probable.

Frederick L. Barry

No amount of logical or mathematical investigation alone, moreover, can ever establish a fact.

Frederick L. Barry

Hypothesis, however, is an inference based on knowledge which is insufficient to prove its high probability.

Frederick L. Barry

It is clear, for instance, that we classify business management, pugilism and medicine together as science because, though as occupations they are only incidentally related, they are all characterized by the practical, methodical, and so far as is humanly possible, the rational utilization of knowledge for the attainment of definite goals.

Frederick L. Barry