Next to undue precipitation in anticipating the results of pending investigations, the intellectual sin which is commonest and most hurtful to those who devote themselves to the increase of knowledge is the omission to profit by the experience of their predecessors recorded in the history of science and philosophy.


Collected Essays, Scientific and Pseudo-Scientific Realism (p. 59)

Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes

Next to undue precipitation in anticipating the results of pending investigations, the intellectual sin which is commonest and most hurtful to those...

Next to undue precipitation in anticipating the results of pending investigations, the intellectual sin which is commonest and most hurtful to those...

Next to undue precipitation in anticipating the results of pending investigations, the intellectual sin which is commonest and most hurtful to those...

Next to undue precipitation in anticipating the results of pending investigations, the intellectual sin which is commonest and most hurtful to those...