Ernst Cassirer Quote

Each theory becomes a Procrustean bed in which the empirical facts are stretched to fit a preconceived pattern.

An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture (p. 21), Yale University Press. 1944

Each theory becomes a Procrustean bed in which the empirical facts are stretched to fit a preconceived pattern.

Each theory becomes a Procrustean bed in which the empirical facts are stretched to fit a preconceived pattern.

Each theory becomes a Procrustean bed in which the empirical facts are stretched to fit a preconceived pattern.

Each theory becomes a Procrustean bed in which the empirical facts are stretched to fit a preconceived pattern.