We aim at simplicity and hope for truth..

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banalit….

If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively,….

For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. No….

An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be in….

We make versions, and true versions make worlds..

Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we a….

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement betwe….

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as….

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth..

What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what need….