Way Quotes (4)
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
The Book of Business (1913), 95.
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.
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That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all—that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.
'The Bee'. In What is Man? and Other Essays? (1917), 283.
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Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here? '
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, ' said the Cat.
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, ' said the Cat.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1898), 53.
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