The Definition Of Definition Is At Bottom

Every Work Of Science Great Enough To Be Well Remembered For A Few Generations Affords Some Exemplification Of The Defective State Of The Art Of Reasoning Of The Time When It Was Written; And Each Chief Step In Science Has Been A Lesson In Logic.

Still, It Will Sometimes Strike A Scientific Man That The Philosophers Have Been Less Intent On Finding Out What The Facts Are, Than On Inquiring What Belief Is Most In Harmony With Their System.

The Opinion Which Is Fated To Be Ultimately Agreed To By All Who Investigate, Is What We Mean By The Truth, And The Object Represented In This Opinion Is The Real. That Is The Way I Would Explain Reality.

It Is The Man Of Science, Eager To Have His Every Opinion Regenerated, His Every Idea Rationalized, By Drinking At The Fountain Of Fact, And Devoting All The Energies Of His Life To The Cult Of Truth, Not As He Understands It, But As He Does Not Yet Understand It, That Ought Properly To Be Called A Philosopher.

There Is Not A Single Truth Of Science Upon Which We Ought To Bet More Than About A Million Of Millions To One.