From Gibbs's letter accepting the Rumford Medal (1881). Quoted in A. L. Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London, 1994).
"Subjective and Objective," in Mortal Questions, Cambridge University Press, 1979, p. 196.
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
Source: Middlemarch
Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 6, Political Economy, p. 140
Source: Investigations into the Method of the Social Sciences, 1883, p. 58
"Further Reflections on the Conversations of Our Time" (1997), which received first place in the Philosophy and Literature Bad Writing Contest
“The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
"No one to be Missed" in Off Screen https://offscreen.com/view/zhang_yimou (April 1999)
[O] : Introduction, 0.6
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984)
Introduction
Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784)
Context: Whatever concept one may hold, from a metaphysical point of view, concerning the freedom of the will, certainly its appearances, which are human actions, like every other natural event are determined by universal laws. However obscure their causes, history, which is concerned with narrating these appearances, permits us to hope that if we attend to the play of freedom of the human will in the large, we may be able to discern a regular movement in it, and that what seems complex and chaotic in the single individual may be seen from the standpoint of the human race as a whole to be a steady and progressive though slow evolution of its original endowment.
