"In the scale of life there is a……" — Chauncey Wright
"In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencies of changing external conditions; and that while in the mindless and motionless plant these resources are at a minimum, their maximum is reached in the mind of man, which, at length, rises to a level with the total order and powers of nature, and in its scientific comprehension of nature is a summary, an epitome of the world."
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Chauncey Wright
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14 Quotes by Chauncey Wright
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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…
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And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress…
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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…
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The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
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By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may,…
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The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of…
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Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which…
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