Famous quotes containing the words james, gordon and/or brown:
“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)
“I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Debussy—A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)