Establish

Famous quotes containing the word establish:

    Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    The conclusion suggested by these arguments might be called the paradox of theorizing. It asserts that if the terms and the general principles of a scientific theory serve their purpose, i. e., if they establish the definite connections among observable phenomena, then they can be dispensed with since any chain of laws and interpretive statements establishing such a connection should then be replaceable by a law which directly links observational antecedents to observational consequents.
    —C.G. (Carl Gustav)