Douglas Wilson Johnson Quote

If an explanation is so vague in its inherent nature, or so unskillfully molded in its formulation, that specific deductions subject to empirical verification or refutation can not be based upon it, then it can never serve as a working hypothesis. A hypothesis with which one can not work is not a working hypothesis.


'Role of Analysis in Scientific Investigation', Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 1933


If an explanation is so vague in its inherent nature, or so unskillfully molded in its formulation, that specific deductions subject to empirical...

If an explanation is so vague in its inherent nature, or so unskillfully molded in its formulation, that specific deductions subject to empirical...

If an explanation is so vague in its inherent nature, or so unskillfully molded in its formulation, that specific deductions subject to empirical...

If an explanation is so vague in its inherent nature, or so unskillfully molded in its formulation, that specific deductions subject to empirical...