However successful a theory or law may have been in the past, directly it fails to interpret new discoveries its work is finished, and it must be discarded or modified. However plausible the hypothesis, it must be ever ready for sacrifice on the altar of observation.


A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, Chapter I (p. 17), Longman, Green & Co. 1922

Joseph William Mellor Quotes

However successful a theory or law may have been in the past, directly it fails to interpret new discoveries its work is finished, and it must be...

However successful a theory or law may have been in the past, directly it fails to interpret new discoveries its work is finished, and it must be...

However successful a theory or law may have been in the past, directly it fails to interpret new discoveries its work is finished, and it must be...

However successful a theory or law may have been in the past, directly it fails to interpret new discoveries its work is finished, and it must be...