John Stuart Mill Quote

The hypothesis, by suggesting observations and experiments, puts us upon the road to that independent evidence if it be really attainable; and till it be attained, the hypothesis ought not to count for more than a suspicion.


A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Book III, Chapter XIV (p. 294), Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1867


The hypothesis, by suggesting observations and experiments, puts us upon the road to that independent evidence if it be really attainable; and till...

The hypothesis, by suggesting observations and experiments, puts us upon the road to that independent evidence if it be really attainable; and till...

The hypothesis, by suggesting observations and experiments, puts us upon the road to that independent evidence if it be really attainable; and till...

The hypothesis, by suggesting observations and experiments, puts us upon the road to that independent evidence if it be really attainable; and till...