Norwood Russell Hanson Quote

The observer may not know what he is seeing: he aims only to get his observations to cohere against the background of established knowledge. This seeing is the goal of observation.


Patterns of Discovery, Chapter I (p. 20), At The University Press. 1958


The observer may not know what he is seeing: he aims only to get his observations to cohere against the background of established knowledge. This...

The observer may not know what he is seeing: he aims only to get his observations to cohere against the background of established knowledge. This...

The observer may not know what he is seeing: he aims only to get his observations to cohere against the background of established knowledge. This...

The observer may not know what he is seeing: he aims only to get his observations to cohere against the background of established knowledge. This...