A law cannot be definite for the one reason that the conceptions with which we formulate it develop and may prove insufficient in the future. There remains at the bottom of every thesis and of every proof some remainder of the dogma of infallibility.


Cosmic Religion, with Other Opinions and Aphorisms, On Science (p. 100), Covici-Fiede. 1931


A law cannot be definite for the one reason that the conceptions with which we formulate it develop and may prove insufficient in the future. There...

A law cannot be definite for the one reason that the conceptions with which we formulate it develop and may prove insufficient in the future. There...

A law cannot be definite for the one reason that the conceptions with which we formulate it develop and may prove insufficient in the future. There...

A law cannot be definite for the one reason that the conceptions with which we formulate it develop and may prove insufficient in the future. There...