Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely called scientific method we change them here and there for the better. Within our own total evolving doctrine, we can judge truth as earnestly and absolutely as can be, subject to correction, but that goes without saying.

Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.

The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.