William Stanley Jevons Quote

The wider our experience, the more minute our examination of the globe, the greater the accumulation of well-reasoned knowledge - the fewer in all probability will be the failures of inference compared with the successes.


The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method, Introduction (p. 3), The Macmillan Co. 1887


The wider our experience, the more minute our examination of the globe, the greater the accumulation of well-reasoned knowledge - the fewer in all...

The wider our experience, the more minute our examination of the globe, the greater the accumulation of well-reasoned knowledge - the fewer in all...

The wider our experience, the more minute our examination of the globe, the greater the accumulation of well-reasoned knowledge - the fewer in all...

The wider our experience, the more minute our examination of the globe, the greater the accumulation of well-reasoned knowledge - the fewer in all...