Joseph William Mellor Quote

Science cannot enter into the dark territory beyond the scope of man's faculties, and where verification, direct or indirect, is not possible. A vivid imagination can people this region with phantasms and be deluded with the hallucination that these creatures of the imagination are real, substantial, objective facts.


A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, Chapter I (p. 16)


Science cannot enter into the dark territory beyond the scope of man's faculties, and where verification, direct or indirect, is not possible. A...

Science cannot enter into the dark territory beyond the scope of man's faculties, and where verification, direct or indirect, is not possible. A...

Science cannot enter into the dark territory beyond the scope of man's faculties, and where verification, direct or indirect, is not possible. A...

Science cannot enter into the dark territory beyond the scope of man's faculties, and where verification, direct or indirect, is not possible. A...