We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
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Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.Chauncey Wright
Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.
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The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
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The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
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The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.
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This does not deny, however, that they may be, as truths, the conclusions of other processes to wit, the inductions of experience.
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