America Is Therefore The Land Of The

Quite Generally, The Familiar, Just Because It Is Familiar, Is Not Cognitively Understood. The Commonest Way In Which We Deceive Either Ourselves Or Others About Understanding Is By Assuming Something As Familiar, And Accepting It On That Account; With All Its Pros And Cons, Such Knowing Never Gets Anywhere, And It Knows Not Why.... The Analysis Of An Idea, As It Used To Be Carried Out, Was, In Fact, Nothing Else Than Ridding It Of The Form In Which It Had Become Familiar.

It Is A Matter Of Perfect Indifference Where A Thing Originated; The Only Question Is: Is It True In And For Itself?

It Is Easier To Discover A Deficiency In Individuals, In States, And In Providence, Than To See Their Real Import And Value.

We Learn From History That We Do Not Learn From History

...if The Fear Of Falling Into Error Is The Source Of A Mistrust In Science, Which In The Absence Of Any Such Misgivings Gets On With The Work Itself And Actually Does Know, It Is Difficult To See Why, Conversely, A Mistrust Should Not Be Placed In This Mistrust, And Why We Should Not Be Concerned That This Fear Of Erring Is Itself The Very Error.