Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the least of us make the most of.

The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely called scientific method we change them here and there for the better. Within our own total evolving doctrine, we can judge truth as earnestly and absolutely as can be, subject to correction, but that goes without saying.

Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.