R. G. Collingwood Quote

The scientist collects crude facts, but he stores only what he has converted them into: laws. Laws are the body of science. Laws are what it is a scientist's business to come at. Laws are what a master-scientist has to teach. Laws are what a pupil-scientist has to learn.


The New Leviathan: Or Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism, Part II, Chapter XXXI, aphorism 31.28 (p. 248), At The Clarendon Press. 1942


The scientist collects crude facts, but he stores only what he has converted them into: laws. Laws are the body of science. Laws are what it is a...

The scientist collects crude facts, but he stores only what he has converted them into: laws. Laws are the body of science. Laws are what it is a...

The scientist collects crude facts, but he stores only what he has converted them into: laws. Laws are the body of science. Laws are what it is a...

The scientist collects crude facts, but he stores only what he has converted them into: laws. Laws are the body of science. Laws are what it is a...