Quotes by Robert A. Burton

Robert A. Burton

Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.

Brain

Knowing

Like Love

Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and tools of probabilities. We have methods for analyzing and ranking opinion according to their likelihood of correctness. That is enough.

Children

Humility

Tools

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Art

Food

Science

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.

Apples

Health

Men

Employment, which Galen calls ‘Nature’s Physician,’ is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

Mother

Nature

Science

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long.

Angel

Long

Men

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.

Ends

Fame

Fingers

Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the origin of their thoughts. The failures of science do not begin with flawed evidence or fumbled statistics; they begin with personal self-deception and an unjustified sense of knowing.

Humility

Knowing

Self

Good science requires distinguishing between “felt knowledge” and knowledge arising out of testable observations. “I am sure” is a mental sensation, not a testable conclusion. Put hunches, gut feelings, and intuitions into the suggestion box. Let empiric methods shake out the good from bad suggestions.

Feelings

Humility

Intuition

He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.

Clothes

Fashion

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Accepting

Adversity

Angel

Apples

Art

Betray

Betrayal

Brain

Children

Clothes

Differences

Doctors

Ends

Fall

Fame

Fashion

Feelings

Fingers

Food

Gold

Good Life

Health

Hopeful

Humility

Ideas

Ignorance

Intuition

Knowing

Land

Learning

Like Love

Limitation

Long

Mad

Marriage

Married

Men

Misery

Mother

Nature

Objectivity

Reflection

Religion

Sadness

Science

Self

Smoking

Style

Sweet

Too Much

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Quotes by Robert A. Burton

Robert A. Burton

Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.

Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and tools of probabilities. We have methods for analyzing and ranking opinion according to their likelihood of correctness. That is enough.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.

Employment, which Galen calls ‘Nature’s Physician,’ is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long.

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.

He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.

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