Famous quotes containing the words long and/or exact:
“Gods cool in turn, by the sun long outlasted.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)
“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)