George Trumbull Ladd Quotes

Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.

George Trumbull Ladd

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• If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

  

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• Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.

  

  George Trumbull Ladd
  • Dream
  • Science
  • Assumption