Sir Richard Gregory, 1st Baronet Quote

In the world of natural knowledge, no authority is great enough to support a theory when a crucial observation has shown it to be untenable.


Discovery; or, The Spirit and Service of Science, Chapter I (p. 12), Macmillan & Company Ltd. 1918


In the world of natural knowledge, no authority is great enough to support a theory when a crucial observation has shown it to be untenable.

In the world of natural knowledge, no authority is great enough to support a theory when a crucial observation has shown it to be untenable.

In the world of natural knowledge, no authority is great enough to support a theory when a crucial observation has shown it to be untenable.

In the world of natural knowledge, no authority is great enough to support a theory when a crucial observation has shown it to be untenable.