Psycho-analysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the A...nalysts already know what's in it--they should, because they put it all in beforehand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if ...a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fi...tted only to the most exalted geniuses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. I...t is because entities that in principle cannot be 'observed' are manipulated to produce a new phenomena [sic] and to investigate other aspects of nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and the object represe...nted in this opinion is the real. That is the way I would explain reality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one cer...tain solution to each question to which they can be applied.... This great law is embodied in the conception of truth and reality. The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessar...ily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »