“Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.”
Robert Elsmere. Book vi. Chap. xxxviii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Step by step [aesthetic] judgment, restless under the growth of positive knowledge, has discarded creed after creed and philosophic system after philosophic system.”
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Karl Pearson
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The Grammar of Science
Introductory
The Grammar of Science (1900)
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