There is... no genuine progress in scientific insight through the Baconian method of accumulating empirical facts without hypotheses or anticipation of nature. Without some guiding idea we do not know what facts to gather... we cannot determine what is relevant and what is irrelevant.


A Preface to Logic, Chapter VII (p. 135)

Morris Raphael Cohen Quotes

There is... no genuine progress in scientific insight through the Baconian method of accumulating empirical facts without hypotheses or anticipation...

There is... no genuine progress in scientific insight through the Baconian method of accumulating empirical facts without hypotheses or anticipation...

There is... no genuine progress in scientific insight through the Baconian method of accumulating empirical facts without hypotheses or anticipation...

There is... no genuine progress in scientific insight through the Baconian method of accumulating empirical facts without hypotheses or anticipation...