"Truth is what will be steadily borne..." - Quote by William James
Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience
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“(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.”
“So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way.”
“There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.”