William James Quote

The aim of "science" is to attain conceptions so adequate and exact that we shall never need to change them.


The Principles of Psychology, The Perception of Things (p. 109), Dover Publications, Inc. 1950


The aim of science is to attain conceptions so adequate and exact that we shall never need to change them.

The aim of science is to attain conceptions so adequate and exact that we shall never need to change them.

The aim of science is to attain conceptions so adequate and exact that we shall never need to change them.

The aim of science is to attain conceptions so adequate and exact that we shall never need to change them.