The beginner has in his head a definition of the science; a childish definition, perhaps, but still a definition; on the science's subject-matter he has no definition at all.


The New Leviathan: Or Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism - Part I, Chapter I, aphorism I.43 (p. 3), At The Clarendon Press. 1942

R. G. Collingwood Quotes

The beginner has in his head a definition of the science; a childish definition, perhaps, but still a definition; on the science's subject-matter he...

The beginner has in his head a definition of the science; a childish definition, perhaps, but still a definition; on the science's subject-matter he...

The beginner has in his head a definition of the science; a childish definition, perhaps, but still a definition; on the science's subject-matter he...

The beginner has in his head a definition of the science; a childish definition, perhaps, but still a definition; on the science's subject-matter he...