My Language Is The Sum Total Of

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

If Man Were Immortal He Could Be Perfectly Sure Of Seeing The Day When Everything In Which He Had Trusted Should Betray His Trust, And, In Short, Of Coming Eventually To Hopeless Misery. He Would Break Down, At Last, As Every Good Fortune, As Every Dynasty, As Every Civilization Does. In Place Of This We Have Death.

If We Are To Define Science, ... It Does Not Consist So Much In Knowing, Nor Even In "organized Knowledge," As It Does In Diligent Inquiry Into Truth For Truth's Sake, Without Any Sort Of Axe To Grind, Nor For The Sake Of The Delight Of Contemplating It, But From An Impulse To Penetrate Into The Reason Of Things.

It Is Certain That The Only Hope Of Retroductive Reasoning Ever Reaching The Truth Is That There May Be Some Natural Tendency Toward An Agreement Between The Ideas Which Suggest Themselves To The Human Mind And Those Which Are Concerned In The Laws Of Nature.

The Universe Ought To Be Presumed Too Vast To Have Any Character.