James Frazer Quote

We must remember that at bottom the generalisations of science or, in common parlance, the laws of nature are merely hypotheses devised to explain that ever-shifting phantasmagoria of thought which we dignify with the high-sounding names of the world and the universe.


The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Volume 1), Abridged edition, Chapter LXIX (p. 712)


We must remember that at bottom the generalisations of science or, in common parlance, the laws of nature are merely hypotheses devised to explain...

We must remember that at bottom the generalisations of science or, in common parlance, the laws of nature are merely hypotheses devised to explain...

We must remember that at bottom the generalisations of science or, in common parlance, the laws of nature are merely hypotheses devised to explain...

We must remember that at bottom the generalisations of science or, in common parlance, the laws of nature are merely hypotheses devised to explain...