“Time destroys the speculations of man” – William James, 1907

“I fully expect to see the pragmatist view of truth run through the classic stages of a theory’s career. First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.” (William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, 1907, pg. 192)