The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these associations and connections, and in the dullness in discovering such transitions which the other shows.
William JamesIf WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.
William JamesA good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.
William James