John Arthur Thomson Quote

Scientific inquiry may be likened to fishing in the sea of reality with a particular kind of tackle. The tackle has well-known excellences, but it has also recognized limitations; and there may be much in the sea that the net used will not catch, being of too wide a mesh.


The New World of Science, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1930


Scientific inquiry may be likened to fishing in the sea of reality with a particular kind of tackle. The tackle has well-known excellences, but it...

Scientific inquiry may be likened to fishing in the sea of reality with a particular kind of tackle. The tackle has well-known excellences, but it...

Scientific inquiry may be likened to fishing in the sea of reality with a particular kind of tackle. The tackle has well-known excellences, but it...

Scientific inquiry may be likened to fishing in the sea of reality with a particular kind of tackle. The tackle has well-known excellences, but it...