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Chauncey Wright has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.
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Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than…
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By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught…
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The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put…
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What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be
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Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by…
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And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in…
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The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
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