Hypothesis follows on hypothesis; the theoretical rubbish-heap accumulates; and truth ever eludes us.


Translated by Maurice Maeterlinck, In Jean-Henri Fabre, The Life of the Spider, Preface (p. 34)


Hypothesis follows on hypothesis; the theoretical rubbish-heap accumulates; and truth ever eludes us.

Hypothesis follows on hypothesis; the theoretical rubbish-heap accumulates; and truth ever eludes us.

Hypothesis follows on hypothesis; the theoretical rubbish-heap accumulates; and truth ever eludes us.

Hypothesis follows on hypothesis; the theoretical rubbish-heap accumulates; and truth ever eludes us.