Famous quotes containing the words subject and/or field:
“There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“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)