Richard Green Moulton Quote

In science... law has to do not with what ought to be, but with what is; scientific laws are facts reduced to formulae, statements of the habits of things, so to speak.


Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist (3rd edition), Introduction (p. 33)


In science... law has to do not with what ought to be, but with what is; scientific laws are facts reduced to formulae, statements of the habits of...

In science... law has to do not with what ought to be, but with what is; scientific laws are facts reduced to formulae, statements of the habits of...

In science... law has to do not with what ought to be, but with what is; scientific laws are facts reduced to formulae, statements of the habits of...

In science... law has to do not with what ought to be, but with what is; scientific laws are facts reduced to formulae, statements of the habits of...