Pragmatism Quote by William James

“Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong.”

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“Our true nature doesn’t need any explanation or demonstration to know itself. It just knows because knowing is part of its nature.”

— Ilchi Lee

“does not ingenuity consist in the finding or creating of connections between apparently extraneous orders of ideas?)”

— Primo Levi

“An overly complex explanation began with an unsophisticated assumption.”

— Rick Delmonico

“There are few things, - whether in the outward world, or to a certain depth, in the invisible sphere of thought, - few things…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.”

— Steve Aylett

“It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption…

— Alexander Hamilton

“It is human nature to concoct explanations to fill the great void of the unknown.”

— Rae Carson

“Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!”

— Abhijit Kar Gupta

“The more science discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanisms of existence, the more clearly does the mystery of existence…

— Aldous Huxley

Human nature is fond of novelty.

— Pliny the Elder