J. W. N. Sullivan Quote

To judge from the history of science, the scientific method is excellent as a means of obtaining plausible conclusions which are always wrong, but hardly as a means of reaching the truth.


The Justification of the Scientific Method, The Athenaeum, Number 4644, 2 May 1919 (p. 275)


To judge from the history of science, the scientific method is excellent as a means of obtaining plausible conclusions which are always wrong, but...

To judge from the history of science, the scientific method is excellent as a means of obtaining plausible conclusions which are always wrong, but...

To judge from the history of science, the scientific method is excellent as a means of obtaining plausible conclusions which are always wrong, but...

To judge from the history of science, the scientific method is excellent as a means of obtaining plausible conclusions which are always wrong, but...