It is difficult to find persons who can with perfect fairness register facts for and against their own peculiar views. Among uncultivated observers the tendency to remark favourable and forget unfavourable events is so great, that no reliance can be placed upon their supposed observations.


The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method, (2nd edition), Book IV, Chapter VIII (p. 402)

William Stanley Jevons Quotes

It is difficult to find persons who can with perfect fairness register facts for and against their own peculiar views. Among uncultivated observers...

It is difficult to find persons who can with perfect fairness register facts for and against their own peculiar views. Among uncultivated observers...

It is difficult to find persons who can with perfect fairness register facts for and against their own peculiar views. Among uncultivated observers...

It is difficult to find persons who can with perfect fairness register facts for and against their own peculiar views. Among uncultivated observers...