What William James thinks about innovation

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American philosopher and psychologist (1842 to 1910); studied at Harvard; author of The Principles of Psychology (1890), The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) and Pragmatism (1907).

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1. c. 1879–1896

   Our readingWhoever steadily studies a science's irregular phenomena will renew that science

   Their wordsAny one will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena.

   ↗The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1879-1896)gutenberg.org All 19 from this book