William James Quote

Fondness for the word 'scientist' is one of the notes by which you may know its votaries; and its [science's] short way of killing any opinion that it disbelieves in is to call it 'unscientific.'


The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, Is Life Worth Living, IV (p. 53), Longmans, Green & Co. 1899


Fondness for the word 'scientist' is one of the notes by which you may know its votaries; and its [science's] short way of killing any opinion that...

Fondness for the word 'scientist' is one of the notes by which you may know its votaries; and its [science's] short way of killing any opinion that...

Fondness for the word 'scientist' is one of the notes by which you may know its votaries; and its [science's] short way of killing any opinion that...

Fondness for the word 'scientist' is one of the notes by which you may know its votaries; and its [science's] short way of killing any opinion that...