The very foundation of our science is only an inference; for the whole of it rests on the unprovable assumption that, all through the inferred lapse of time which the inferred performance of inferred geological processes involves, they have been going on in a manner consistent with the laws of nature as we know them now.


'The Value of Outrageous Geological Hypotheses', Science, 1926, 63, 465–466

William Morris Davis Quotes

The very foundation of our science is only an inference; for the whole of it rests on the unprovable assumption that, all through the inferred lapse...

The very foundation of our science is only an inference; for the whole of it rests on the unprovable assumption that, all through the inferred lapse...

The very foundation of our science is only an inference; for the whole of it rests on the unprovable assumption that, all through the inferred lapse...

The very foundation of our science is only an inference; for the whole of it rests on the unprovable assumption that, all through the inferred lapse...