I prefer to use the term "theory," with the above understood qualification, viz... a theory in its hypothetical stage.
Stellar Evolution and Its Relations to Geological Time, Part I (p. 1), D. Appleton & Co. 1889
I prefer to use the term "theory," with the above understood qualification, viz... a theory in its hypothetical stage.
Stellar Evolution and Its Relations to Geological Time, Part I (p. 1), D. Appleton & Co. 1889