We can put it down as one of the principles learned from the history of science that a theory is only overthrown by a better theory, never merely by contradictory facts.


On Understanding Science, Chapter II (p. 36), Yale University Press. 1947

James Bryant Conant Quotes

We can put it down as one of the principles learned from the history of science that a theory is only overthrown by a better theory, never merely by...

We can put it down as one of the principles learned from the history of science that a theory is only overthrown by a better theory, never merely by...

We can put it down as one of the principles learned from the history of science that a theory is only overthrown by a better theory, never merely by...

We can put it down as one of the principles learned from the history of science that a theory is only overthrown by a better theory, never merely by...