John Arthur Thomson Quote

Science always begins - not at the beginning, for that is impossible, but from something "given" which it does not explain.


Introduction to Science, Chapter VII (p. 205), Henry Holt & Co. 1911


Science always begins - not at the beginning, for that is impossible, but from something given which it does not explain.

Science always begins - not at the beginning, for that is impossible, but from something given which it does not explain.

Science always begins - not at the beginning, for that is impossible, but from something given which it does not explain.

Science always begins - not at the beginning, for that is impossible, but from something given which it does not explain.