Creatures Inveterately Wrong In Their

We Must Not Leap To The Fatalistic Conclusion That We Are Stuck With The Conceptual Scheme That We Grew Up In. We Can Change It, Bit By Bit, Plank By Plank, Though Meanwhile There Is Nothing To Carry Us Along But The Evolving Conceptual Scheme Itself. The Philosopher's Task Was Well Compared By Neurath To That Of A Mariner Who Must Rebuild His Ship On The Open Sea.

Nonbeing Must In Some Sense Be, Otherwise What Is It That There Is Not? This Tangled Doctrine Might Be Nicknamed Plato's Beard; Historically It Has Proved Tough, Frequently Dulling The Edge Of Occam's Razor.

Unscientific Man Is Beset By A Deplorable Desire To Have Been Right. The Scientist Is Distinguished By A Desire To Be Right.

Language Is A Social Art.

The Lore Of Our Fathers Is A Fabric Of Sentences. A Pale Gray Lore, Black With Fact And White With Convention.