A forest of facts unordered by concepts and constructive relations may be cherished for its existential appeal, its vividness, or its nausea; yet it is meaningless and cognitively unavailing unless it be organized by reason.


Open Vistas Philosophical Perspectives of Modern Science, Chapter 2 (pp. 28-29), Yale University Press. 1961

Henry Margenau Quotes

A forest of facts unordered by concepts and constructive relations may be cherished for its existential appeal, its vividness, or its nausea; yet it...

A forest of facts unordered by concepts and constructive relations may be cherished for its existential appeal, its vividness, or its nausea; yet it...

A forest of facts unordered by concepts and constructive relations may be cherished for its existential appeal, its vividness, or its nausea; yet it...

A forest of facts unordered by concepts and constructive relations may be cherished for its existential appeal, its vividness, or its nausea; yet it...