Ray Lankester Quote

Nature, it has been said, gives no reply to a general inquiry - she must be interrogated by questions which already contain the answer she is to give; in other words, the observer can only observe that which he is led by hypothesis to look for: the experimenter can only obtain the result which his experiment is designed to obtain.


The Advancement of Science, Chapter I (p. 9)


Nature, it has been said, gives no reply to a general inquiry - she must be interrogated by questions which already contain the answer she is to...

Nature, it has been said, gives no reply to a general inquiry - she must be interrogated by questions which already contain the answer she is to...

Nature, it has been said, gives no reply to a general inquiry - she must be interrogated by questions which already contain the answer she is to...

Nature, it has been said, gives no reply to a general inquiry - she must be interrogated by questions which already contain the answer she is to...