Address delivered by the President of Section [Geology] at Sydney (Friday, Aug 21)
- Kind
- Speech
- Date
- 1914
- Publisher
- Report of the Eighty-Fourth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: Australia
- Retrieved
- Jun 5, 2012
1 meme from this reference
Theories Dwindle in Number as Facts Emerge
The intensity and quantity of polemical literature on scientific problems frequently varies inversely as the number of direct observations on which the discussions are based: the number and variety of theories concerning a subject thus often form a coefficient of our ignorance. Beyond the superficial observations…