For science, which is simply our most elaborate way of pointing to things systematically, tells us and can tell us nothing about the nature of things in any ultimate sense. It can never answer any question of the form: What is so and so? It can only tell us how so and so behaves. And it does not attempt to do more than this.


Science and Poetry, Chapter V (pp. 52-53), Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company Ltd. 1926

I. A. Richards Quotes

For science, which is simply our most elaborate way of pointing to things systematically, tells us and can tell us nothing about the nature of things ...

For science, which is simply our most elaborate way of pointing to things systematically, tells us and can tell us nothing about the nature of things ...

For science, which is simply our most elaborate way of pointing to things systematically, tells us and can tell us nothing about the nature of things ...

For science, which is simply our most elaborate way of pointing to things systematically, tells us and can tell us nothing about the nature of things ...