There Never Was A Sounder Logical Maxim

Among The Minor, Yet Striking Characteristics Of Mathematics, May Be Mentioned The Fleshless And Skeletal Build Of Its Propositions; The Peculiar Difficulty, Complication, And Stress Of Its Reasonings; The Perfect Exactitude Of Its Results; Their Broad Universality; Their Practical Infallibility.

A True Proposition Is A Proposition Belief Which Would Never Lead To Such Disappointment So Long As The Proposition Is Not Understood Otherwise Than It Was Intended.

Truly, That Reason Upon Which We Plume Ourselves, Though It May Answer For Little Things, Yet For Great Decisions Is Hardly Surer Than A Toss Up.

Upon This First, And In One Sense This Sole, Rule Of Reason, That In Order To Learn You Must Desire To Learn, And In So Desiring Not Be Satisfied With What You Already Incline To Think, There Follows One Corollary Which Itself Deserves To Be Inscribed Upon Every Wall Of The City Of Philosophy: Do Not Block The Way Of Inquiry.

Theology, I Am Persuaded, Derives Its Initial Impulse From A Religious Wavering; For There Is Quite As Much, Or More, That Is Mysterious And Calculated To Awaken Scientific Curiosity In The Intercourse With God, And It [is] A Problem Quite Analogous To That Of Theology.