To see things and happenings clearly, both in themselves and in their relations to other things and happenings, is the aim of science. And no one who enjoys scientific work - whether at the humble level of accurate description, or at the high level of discovering a formula - cares to hear much about the "utility of science."


Introduction to Science, Chapter VIII (p. 224), Henry Holt & Co. 1911

John Arthur Thomson Quotes

To see things and happenings clearly, both in themselves and in their relations to other things and happenings, is the aim of science. And no one who ...

To see things and happenings clearly, both in themselves and in their relations to other things and happenings, is the aim of science. And no one who ...

To see things and happenings clearly, both in themselves and in their relations to other things and happenings, is the aim of science. And no one who ...

To see things and happenings clearly, both in themselves and in their relations to other things and happenings, is the aim of science. And no one who ...