The firm determination to submit to experiment is not enough; there are still dangerous hypotheses; first, and above all, those which are tacit and unconscious. Since we make them without knowing it, we are powerless to abandon them.


The Foundations of Science, Science and Hypothesis, Part IV, Chapter IX (p. 134), The Science Press. 1913

Henri Poincaré Quotes

The firm determination to submit to experiment is not enough; there are still dangerous hypotheses; first, and above all, those which are tacit and...

The firm determination to submit to experiment is not enough; there are still dangerous hypotheses; first, and above all, those which are tacit and...

The firm determination to submit to experiment is not enough; there are still dangerous hypotheses; first, and above all, those which are tacit and...

The firm determination to submit to experiment is not enough; there are still dangerous hypotheses; first, and above all, those which are tacit and...