Prediction is all very well; but we must make sense of what we predict. The mainspring of science is the conviction that by honest, imaginative enquiry we can build up a system of ideas about Nature which has some legitimate claim to 'reality'.


The Philosophy of Science: An Introduction, Chapter 6 (p. 115), Indiana University Press. 1961

Stephen Edelston Toulmin Quotes

Prediction is all very well; but we must make sense of what we predict. The mainspring of science is the conviction that by honest, imaginative...

Prediction is all very well; but we must make sense of what we predict. The mainspring of science is the conviction that by honest, imaginative...

Prediction is all very well; but we must make sense of what we predict. The mainspring of science is the conviction that by honest, imaginative...

Prediction is all very well; but we must make sense of what we predict. The mainspring of science is the conviction that by honest, imaginative...