A considerable obstruction to the real advancement of science, the progress of which is much less retarded by ignorance than by error.


Translated by Henry de La Fite, An Elementary Treatise on Geology, Preliminary Discourse on Geology (p. 1), F. C. & J. Rivington. 1809

Jean-André Deluc Quotes

A considerable obstruction to the real advancement of science, the progress of which is much less retarded by ignorance than by error.

A considerable obstruction to the real advancement of science, the progress of which is much less retarded by ignorance than by error.

A considerable obstruction to the real advancement of science, the progress of which is much less retarded by ignorance than by error.

A considerable obstruction to the real advancement of science, the progress of which is much less retarded by ignorance than by error.