We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
Chauncey WrightAnd we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
Chauncey WrightAll observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
Chauncey WrightThe questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
Chauncey WrightA fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand simple. A theory, on the other hand, if true, has all the characteristics of a fact except that its verification is possible only by indirect, remote, and difficult means.
Chauncey Wright