Every New Concept First Comes

The Definition Of Definition Is At Bottom Just What The Maxim Of Pragmatism Expresses.

Truth Is That Concordance Of An Abstract Statement With The Ideal Limit Towards Which Endless Investigation Would Tend To Bring Scientific Belief, Which Concordance The Abstract Statement May Possess By Virtue Of The Confession Of Its Inaccuracy And One-sidedness, And This Confession Is An Essential Ingredient Of Truth.

Kepler's Discovery Would Not Have Been Possible Without The Doctrine Of Conics. Now Contemporaries Of Kepler-such Penetrating Minds As Descartes And Pascal-were Abandoning The Study Of Geometry ... Because They Said It Was So Utterly Useless. There Was The Future Of The Human Race Almost Trembling In The Balance; For Had Not The Geometry Of Conic Sections Already Been Worked Out In Large Measure, And Had Their Opinion That Only Sciences Apparently Useful Ought To Be Pursued, The Nineteenth Century Would Have Had None Of Those Characters Which Distinguish It From The Ancien Régime.

... And It Is Probably That There Is Some Secret Here Which Remains To Be Discovered.

I Think Of Consciousness As A Bottomless Lake, Whose Waters Seem Transparent, Yet Into Which We Can Clearly See But A Little Way.but In This Water There Are Countless Objects At Different Depths; And Certain Influences Will Give Certain Kinds Of Those Objects An Upward Influence Which May Be Intense Enough And Continue Long Enough To Bring Them Into The Upper Visible Layer. After The Impulse Ceases They Commence To Sink Downwards.