Matthew Fontaine Maury Quote

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.


The Physical Geography of the Sea (ed. 1858)


The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest...

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest...

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest...

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest...