An argument from probability is like an India-rubber ball; you hit it, and it may fly away, or it may return to you, all the more vigorously the harder you hit.


Were the Earliest Organic Movements Conscious or Unconscious?, The Popular Science Monthly, Volume LX, March, 1902 (p. 469)

Edward B. Titchener Quotes

An argument from probability is like an India-rubber ball; you hit it, and it may fly away, or it may return to you, all the more vigorously the...

An argument from probability is like an India-rubber ball; you hit it, and it may fly away, or it may return to you, all the more vigorously the...

An argument from probability is like an India-rubber ball; you hit it, and it may fly away, or it may return to you, all the more vigorously the...

An argument from probability is like an India-rubber ball; you hit it, and it may fly away, or it may return to you, all the more vigorously the...