APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
The vulgar antithesis of fact and theory is founded on a misconception of the nature of scientific theory, which is, or ought to be, no more than the expression of fact in a general form. Whatever goes beyond such expression is hypothesis; and hypo- ' theses are not ends, but means. They ,should be regarded as instruments, by which new lines of inquiry are dictated ; or by the aid yf which a provisional coherency and intelligibility may bo given to seemingly disconnected groups of phenomena. The most useful of servants to the man of science, they are the worst of masters. Ancl when the establishment of the hypothesis becomes tho end, and fact is alluded to only so far as it suits the “Idee,” science lias., no longer anything to do with the business.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1932, Page 1
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136APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1932, Page 1
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