William Stanley Jevons Quote

We must learn to distinguish between what we can know and cannot know - between the questions which admit of solution, and those which only seem to be solved.


The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method, Chapter XXI (p. 454), Macmillan & Co Ltd. 1887


We must learn to distinguish between what we can know and cannot know - between the questions which admit of solution, and those which only seem to...

We must learn to distinguish between what we can know and cannot know - between the questions which admit of solution, and those which only seem to...

We must learn to distinguish between what we can know and cannot know - between the questions which admit of solution, and those which only seem to...

We must learn to distinguish between what we can know and cannot know - between the questions which admit of solution, and those which only seem to...