Pierre Lecomte du Noüy Quote

The aim of science is not so much to search for truth, or even truths, as to classify our knowledge and to establish relations between observable phenomena in order to be able to predict the future in a certain measure and to explain the sequence of phenomena in relation to ourselves.


Between Knowing and Believing, The Road to Reason (p. 188), McKay. 1967


The aim of science is not so much to search for truth, or even truths, as to classify our knowledge and to establish relations between observable...

The aim of science is not so much to search for truth, or even truths, as to classify our knowledge and to establish relations between observable...

The aim of science is not so much to search for truth, or even truths, as to classify our knowledge and to establish relations between observable...

The aim of science is not so much to search for truth, or even truths, as to classify our knowledge and to establish relations between observable...