Accepting Quote by James G. Frazer

“The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.” quote by James G. Frazer — Download Open image

“The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.”

James G. Frazer

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Accepting Approach Facts Fit Hypothesis Never ending Rejecting Seems Testing Truth

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The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

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Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.

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For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.

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