Gabriel Hanotaux Quote

Science begins by giving names; it then reasons on those names. It shuts itself up in abstractions as in a dark room; sometimes a sudden perception, like a flash of lightning, discovers a corner of reality; then Night, darker than ever, resumes its sway.


Contemporary France (Volume 2), Chapter XII, Section III (p. 641)


Science begins by giving names; it then reasons on those names. It shuts itself up in abstractions as in a dark room; sometimes a sudden perception,...

Science begins by giving names; it then reasons on those names. It shuts itself up in abstractions as in a dark room; sometimes a sudden perception,...

Science begins by giving names; it then reasons on those names. It shuts itself up in abstractions as in a dark room; sometimes a sudden perception,...

Science begins by giving names; it then reasons on those names. It shuts itself up in abstractions as in a dark room; sometimes a sudden perception,...