Sections & views, illustrative of geological phaenomena

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…

Apr 23, 2012 1

• facts
• hypothesis
• theory