By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be …

- Chauncey Wright

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

- Chauncey Wright

The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is basedon induction, or, if…

- Chauncey Wright

A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand simple. A theory…

- Chauncey Wright

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

- Chauncey Wright

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science …

- Chauncey Wright

In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencie…

- Chauncey Wright

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

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through eviden…

- Chauncey Wright