Quote#Politics & Power
Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of…
Quote byWilliam Crookes · 1832–1919
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Address to the Society for Psychical Research (1897).
English (original)
Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as a merely illusory asset. As we trace more accurately certain familiar sequences of phenomena we begin to realize how closely these sequences, or laws, as we call them, are hemmed round by still other laws of which we can form no notion.
— William Crookes
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