Author: Chauncey Wright

Quotes

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

- Chauncey Wright

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

- Chauncey Wright

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

- Chauncey Wright

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