Pastoral Resources

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.

Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.