Ultimately Quotes (2)
I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open.
In Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906), Vol. 1, 101.
See also: | Evidence (31) | Fine (2) | Idea (83) | Science (444) | Spirit (9) | Sure (2) | Surrender (2) | Way (4)
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count.
In Science and the Modern World (1925), 4.
See also: | Activity (8) | Control (11) | Count (4) | Destroy (7) | Instinct (13) | Man (112) | Matter (61) | Occur (2) | Settle (2) | Word (31)
