The History Of Science Is A Record

If Human Thought Is A Growth, Like All Other Growths, Its Logic Is Without Foundation Of Its Own, And Is Only The Adjusting Constructiveness Of All Other Growing Things. A Tree Cannot Find Out, As It Were, How To Blossom, Until Comes Blossom-time. A Social Growth Cannot Find Out The Use Of Steam Engines, Until Comes Steam-engine-time.

Existence Is Appetite: The Gnaw Of Being; The One Attempt Of All Things To Assimilate To Some Higher Attempt.

All Biologic Phenomena Act To Adjust: There Are No Biologic Actions Other Than Adjustments. Adjustment Is Another Name For Equilibrium. Equilibrium Is The Universal, Or That Which Has Nothing External To Derange It.

Peasants Have Believed In Dowsing, And Scientists Used To Believe That Dowsing Was Only A Belief Of Peasants. Now There Are So Many Scientists Who Believe In Dowsing That The Suspicion Comes To Me That It May Only Be A Myth After All.

When We Come Upon Assurances That A Mystery Has Been Solved, We Go On Investigating.