Fact Can Impede the Progress of Science

It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can be deduced from the knowledge of a hundred facts may be very different from those deducible from five. It is also possible that the facts first known may be the exceptions to a rule and not the rule itself, and generalisations from these first-known facts, though useful at the time, may be highly mischievous, and impede the progress of the science if retained when it has made some advance.

Notes:

Because they are the first-known, and taint the understanding of later facts discovered.

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Sections & views, illustrative of geological phaenomena

Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Beche , Henry Thomas De La (1830), Sections & views, illustrative of geological phaenomena, Retrieved on 2012-04-23

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