... all progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority ... without the huge body of traditional knowledge, accurate and inaccurate together, there would be nothing even to correct. Progress is not… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of apparent contradiction… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values. — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
The spiritual is not the emotional; we may receive spiritual things emotionally, but to receive them rationally we must receive them with the mind… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat. — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
... all progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority ... without the huge body of… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority. — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
