Émile Boutroux Quote

The philosopher asks himself whether natural law as assumed by science, wholly coincides with law as really existing in nature; whether science and reality are so alike that science may be regarded as exhausting everything intelligible and true that the real contains.


Translated by Fred Roth Well, Natural law in Science and Philosophy, Preface (p. 5), The Macmillan Co. 1914


The philosopher asks himself whether natural law as assumed by science, wholly coincides with law as really existing in nature; whether science and...

The philosopher asks himself whether natural law as assumed by science, wholly coincides with law as really existing in nature; whether science and...

The philosopher asks himself whether natural law as assumed by science, wholly coincides with law as really existing in nature; whether science and...

The philosopher asks himself whether natural law as assumed by science, wholly coincides with law as really existing in nature; whether science and...