Andreas Osiander Quote

It is not necessary that these hypotheses should be true, or even probably; but it is enough if they provide a calculus which fits the observations.


In: Great Books of the Western World (Volume 16), On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres


It is not necessary that these hypotheses should be true, or even probably; but it is enough if they provide a calculus which fits the observations.

It is not necessary that these hypotheses should be true, or even probably; but it is enough if they provide a calculus which fits the observations.

It is not necessary that these hypotheses should be true, or even probably; but it is enough if they provide a calculus which fits the observations.

It is not necessary that these hypotheses should be true, or even probably; but it is enough if they provide a calculus which fits the observations.