Johann Heinrich Jakob Müller Quote

Hypotheses are like questions which we put to Nature, but the answers she gives are not simply "yes" and "no;" but it can be so, or it cannot.


Principles of Physics and Meteorology, Introduction (p. 4), Hippolyte Bailliere. 1847


Hypotheses are like questions which we put to Nature, but the answers she gives are not simply yes and no; but it can be so, or it cannot.

Hypotheses are like questions which we put to Nature, but the answers she gives are not simply yes and no; but it can be so, or it cannot.

Hypotheses are like questions which we put to Nature, but the answers she gives are not simply yes and no; but it can be so, or it cannot.

Hypotheses are like questions which we put to Nature, but the answers she gives are not simply yes and no; but it can be so, or it cannot.