Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point of view when they make us acquainted with the law of a series of uniformly recurring phenomena, or, it may be, only give a negative result showing an incompleteness in our knowledge of such a law, till then held to be perfect.


Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects (ed. 1873)

Hermann von Helmholtz Quotes

Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or...

Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or...

Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or...

Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or...