Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis Quote

All [knowledge] comes from experience, it is true, but experience is nothing if it does not form collections of similar facts. Now, to make collections is to count.


Letter to Jean Cruveilhier (1837), as quoted by William Coleman, Death is a Social Disease: Public Health and Political Economy in Early Industrial France (1982)


All [knowledge] comes from experience, it is true, but experience is nothing if it does not form collections of similar facts. Now, to make...

All [knowledge] comes from experience, it is true, but experience is nothing if it does not form collections of similar facts. Now, to make...

All [knowledge] comes from experience, it is true, but experience is nothing if it does not form collections of similar facts. Now, to make...

All [knowledge] comes from experience, it is true, but experience is nothing if it does not form collections of similar facts. Now, to make...