.....The precept of veracity....is, I should say:" Give to any
hypothesis which is worth your while to consider just that degree of
credence which the evidence warrants." And if the hypothesis is
sufficiently important there is an additional duty of seeking
further evidence.

In the welter of conflicting fanaticisms, one of the few unifying
forces is scientific truthfulness, by which I mean the habit of
basing our beliefs upon observations and inferences as impersonal,
and as much divested of local and temperamental bias, as is possible
for human beings. To have insisted upon the introduction of this
virtue into philosophy, and to have invented a powerful method
by which it can be rendered fruitful, are the chief merits of the
philosophical school of which I am a member. The habit of careful
veracity acquired in the practice of this philosophical method
can be extended to the whole sphere of human activity, producing
, wherever it exists, a lessening of fanaticism with an increasing
capacity of sympathy and mutual understanding. In abandoning
a part of its dogmatic pretensions, philosophy does not cease
to suggest and inspire a way of life.