William Stanley Jevons Quote

Experience gives us the materials of knowledge: induction digests those materials, and yields us general knowledge.


The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method, Book I, Chapter I (p. 12), Macmillan & Company Ltd. 1892


Experience gives us the materials of knowledge: induction digests those materials, and yields us general knowledge.

Experience gives us the materials of knowledge: induction digests those materials, and yields us general knowledge.

Experience gives us the materials of knowledge: induction digests those materials, and yields us general knowledge.

Experience gives us the materials of knowledge: induction digests those materials, and yields us general knowledge.