William Whewell Quote

The progress of knowledge is the main action of our drama; and all the events which do not bear upon this, though they may relate to the cultivation and the cultivators of philosophy, are not a necessary part of our theme.


History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Time, (Volume the First), Introduction (pp. 9, 12)


The progress of knowledge is the main action of our drama; and all the events which do not bear upon this, though they may relate to the cultivation...

The progress of knowledge is the main action of our drama; and all the events which do not bear upon this, though they may relate to the cultivation...

The progress of knowledge is the main action of our drama; and all the events which do not bear upon this, though they may relate to the cultivation...

The progress of knowledge is the main action of our drama; and all the events which do not bear upon this, though they may relate to the cultivation...