There is no nobler aspiration of the human intellect than desire to compass the cause of things. The disposition to find explanations and to develop theories is laudable in itself. It is only ill use that is reprehensible. The vitality of study quickly disappears when the object sought is a mere collection of dead unmeaning facts.


The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses - Science, Volume 148, Number 3671,7 May 1965 (p. 755)

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin Quotes

There is no nobler aspiration of the human intellect than desire to compass the cause of things. The disposition to find explanations and to develop...

There is no nobler aspiration of the human intellect than desire to compass the cause of things. The disposition to find explanations and to develop...

There is no nobler aspiration of the human intellect than desire to compass the cause of things. The disposition to find explanations and to develop...

There is no nobler aspiration of the human intellect than desire to compass the cause of things. The disposition to find explanations and to develop...