But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter. ...Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a ...conquistador--an adventurer, if you want it translated--with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »