From Emerson's Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle anything as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, and endless seeker with no past at my back. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Circles", p. 168