Roger Joseph Boscovich Quote

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.


'De litteraria expeditione per pontificiam ditionem', Accademia della scienze, Bologna, Commentarii, 1757, 4, 353, 361. Trans. J. L. Heilbron, Weighing Imponderables and Other Quantitative Science around 1800 (1993)


Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.