Jacob Davis Babcock Stillman Quote

Can science do something to check the wild revels of the imagination, confine it within the bounds of probability, and deduce such laws as will best serve to protect us from the destructive effects offerees that we cannot control.


Concerning the Late Earthquake, The Overland Monthly, Volume 1, November, 1868 (p. 475)


Can science do something to check the wild revels of the imagination, confine it within the bounds of probability, and deduce such laws as will best...

Can science do something to check the wild revels of the imagination, confine it within the bounds of probability, and deduce such laws as will best...

Can science do something to check the wild revels of the imagination, confine it within the bounds of probability, and deduce such laws as will best...

Can science do something to check the wild revels of the imagination, confine it within the bounds of probability, and deduce such laws as will best...