The scientific imagination devises a possible solution - an hypothesis - and the investigator proceeds to test it. He makes intellectual keys and then tries whether they fit the lock. If the hypothesis does not fit, it is rejected and another is made. The scientific workshop is full of discarded keys.


Introduction to Science, Chapter III (p. 69), Henry Holt & Co. 1911

John Arthur Thomson Quotes

The scientific imagination devises a possible solution - an hypothesis - and the investigator proceeds to test it. He makes intellectual keys and...

The scientific imagination devises a possible solution - an hypothesis - and the investigator proceeds to test it. He makes intellectual keys and...

The scientific imagination devises a possible solution - an hypothesis - and the investigator proceeds to test it. He makes intellectual keys and...

The scientific imagination devises a possible solution - an hypothesis - and the investigator proceeds to test it. He makes intellectual keys and...