Joseph William Mellor Quote

Without hypotheses, the experimental method may degenerate into empiricism; without experiments, hypotheses may degenerate into speculation.


A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, Chapter I (p. 16), Longman, Green & Co. 1922


Without hypotheses, the experimental method may degenerate into empiricism; without experiments, hypotheses may degenerate into speculation.

Without hypotheses, the experimental method may degenerate into empiricism; without experiments, hypotheses may degenerate into speculation.

Without hypotheses, the experimental method may degenerate into empiricism; without experiments, hypotheses may degenerate into speculation.

Without hypotheses, the experimental method may degenerate into empiricism; without experiments, hypotheses may degenerate into speculation.