If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything..., even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given. What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I had not come to America, where I felt free to formulate tentatively insights at which I had empathically arrived, I would hav...e accomplished very little. I would never have begun to publish, to teach, to undertake research. Because if one does not find an assenting echo to one's ideas, if one is passed over, as I was in Vienna, then one cannot create. To create, after all, is to believe that what one says will count.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmaticall...y, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »