Richard Lewontin Quote

We cannot go out and describe the world in any old way we please and then sit back and demand that an explanatory and predictive theory be built on that description.


The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change, Chapter 1 (p. 8)


We cannot go out and describe the world in any old way we please and then sit back and demand that an explanatory and predictive theory be built on...

We cannot go out and describe the world in any old way we please and then sit back and demand that an explanatory and predictive theory be built on...

We cannot go out and describe the world in any old way we please and then sit back and demand that an explanatory and predictive theory be built on...

We cannot go out and describe the world in any old way we please and then sit back and demand that an explanatory and predictive theory be built on...