Johann Heinrich Lambert Quote

In order to supply the defects of experience, we will have recourse to the probable conjectures of analogy, conclusions which we will bequeath to our posterity to be ascertained by new observations, which, if we augur rightly, will serve to establish our theory and to carry it gradually nearer to absolute certainty.


The System of the World (1800)


In order to supply the defects of experience, we will have recourse to the probable conjectures of analogy, conclusions which we will bequeath to our ...

In order to supply the defects of experience, we will have recourse to the probable conjectures of analogy, conclusions which we will bequeath to our ...

In order to supply the defects of experience, we will have recourse to the probable conjectures of analogy, conclusions which we will bequeath to our ...

In order to supply the defects of experience, we will have recourse to the probable conjectures of analogy, conclusions which we will bequeath to our ...