“The professional philosopher in keen competition with the natural scientist resolves to be more certain about less.”
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 59
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Familiar talks on science, Volume 2 (1900), p. 157
Nature's Miracles (1900)
Context: It is the province of the scientist to reveal the facts of nature as they now exist, and leave the rest to the speculation of the philosopher and the theologian. The growth of vegetation made it possible for animal and insect life to exist, and the earth teemed with both; first of an inferior kind, but later, as the conditions for a higher order of life were right, the higher order came with the improved conditions. In this way was the earth through countless ages of time prepared for man — God's highest creation.
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Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 2. Adaptive Systems

"The Source of Religion", International Socialist Review, Vol. 16, Iss. 12, Jun. 1916
Source: Mind As Behavior And Studies In Empirical Idealism, (1924), p. 3: Chapter 1.

“Philosophers no longer write for the intelligent, only for their fellow professionals.”
"Culture High and Dry" (1984), p. 9
The Culture We Deserve (1989)
Context: Philosophers no longer write for the intelligent, only for their fellow professionals. The few thousand academic philosophers in the world do not stint themselves: they maintain more than seventy learned journals. But in the handful that cover more than one subdivision of philosophy, any given philosopher can hardly follow more than one or two articles in each issue. This hermetic condition is attributed to "technical problems" in the subject. Since William James, Russell, and Whitehead, philosophy, like history, has been confiscated by scholarship and locked away from the contamination of general use.

Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)

“What is familiar to professional scientists highly needs to be placed in the public domain.”
Ce qui est familier aux savants de profession a grand besoin d'être mis dans le domaine commun.
Études et lectures sur les sciences d'observation et leurs applications pratiques, by Jacques Babinet, published by Mallet-Bachelier (1858), p. x http://books.google.com/books?id=zYIAAAAAMAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPR10,M1.