Field Splitting

Famous quotes containing the words field and/or splitting:

    Better risk loss of truth than chance of error—that is your faith-vetoer’s exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.
    William James (1842–1910)

    Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)