Henry De la Beche Quote

Generalizations would be excellent things if we could be persuaded to part with them as easily as we formed them. They might then be used like the shifting hypotheses in certain operations of exact science, by help of which we may gradually approximate nearer and nearer to the truth.


Quoted in Henry Thomas de La Beche, Sections & Views, Illustrative of Geological Phaenomena


Generalizations would be excellent things if we could be persuaded to part with them as easily as we formed them. They might then be used like the...

Generalizations would be excellent things if we could be persuaded to part with them as easily as we formed them. They might then be used like the...

Generalizations would be excellent things if we could be persuaded to part with them as easily as we formed them. They might then be used like the...

Generalizations would be excellent things if we could be persuaded to part with them as easily as we formed them. They might then be used like the...