Quote#World
Hundreds of men have allowed their imagination to solve the universe,…
Quote byKarl Pearson · 1857–1936
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Grammar of Science (1900), Introductory.
English (original)
Hundreds of men have allowed their imagination to solve the universe, but the men who have contributed to our real understanding of natural phenomena have been those who were unstinting in their application of criticism to the product of their imaginations. It is such criticism which is the essence of the scientific use of the imagination, which is... the very life-blood of science.
— Karl Pearson
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