A Pair Of Statements May Be Taken

It Is Not Knowing, But The Love Of Learning, That Characterizes The Scientific Man.

It Is... Easy To Be Certain. One Has Only To Be Sufficiently Vague.

If We Are To Define Science, ... It Does Not Consist So Much In Knowing, Nor Even In "organized Knowledge," As It Does In Diligent Inquiry Into Truth For Truth's Sake, Without Any Sort Of Axe To Grind, Nor For The Sake Of The Delight Of Contemplating It, But From An Impulse To Penetrate Into The Reason Of Things.

It Has Never Been In My Power To Study Anything, Mathematics, Ethics, Metaphysics, Gravitation, Thermodynamics, Optics, Chemistry, Comparative Anatomy, Astronomy, Psychology, Phonetics, Economics, The History Of Science, Whist, Men And Women, Wine, Metrology, Except As A Study Of Semeiotic .

When Anything Is Present To The Mind, What Is The Very First And Simplest Character To Be Noted In It, In Every Case, No Matter How Little Elevated The Object May Be? Certainly, It Is Its Presentness .