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Theories are instruments for moving forward, not answers to rest in
Drawn from what William James said
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- William James American philosopher and psychologist (1842 to 1910)
THEORIES THUS BECOME INSTRUMENTS, NOT ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, IN WHICH WE CAN REST. We don't lie back upon them, we move forward, and, on occasion, make nature over again by their aid.
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↗Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907)gutenberg.org
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