My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.
I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.
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