The Biological Task Of Science Is To

Science Always Has Its Origin In The Adaptation Of Thought To Some Definite Field Of Experience.

Science Is The Most Complete Presentment Of Facts With The Least Expenditure Of Thought

If Our Dreams Were More Regular, More Connected, More Stable, They Would Also Have More Practical Importance For Us.

The Task Which We Have Set Ourselves Is Simply To Show Why And For What Purpose We Hold That Standpoint During Most Of Our Lives, And Why And For What Purpose We Are Provisionally Obliged To Abandon It.

I Know Of Nothing More Terrible Than The Poor Creatures Who Have Learned Too Much. Instead Of The Sound Powerful Judgement Which Would Probably Have Grown Up If They Had Learned Nothing, Their Thoughts Creep Timidly And Hypnotically After Words, Principles And Formulae, Constantly By The Same Paths. What They Have Acquired Is A Spider's Web Of Thoughts Too Weak To Furnish Sure Supports, But Complicated Enough To Provide Confusion.