Science Always Has Its Origin In The

When I Recall Today My Early Youth, I Should Take The Boy That I Then Was, With The Exception Of A Few Individual Features, For A Different Person, Were It Not For The Existence Of The Chain Of Memories.

The Presentations And Conceptions Of The Average Man Of The World Are Formed And Dominated, Not By The Full And Pure Desire For Knowledge As An End In Itself, But By The Struggle To Adapt Himself Favourably To The Conditions Of Life.

The Plain Man Is Familiar With Blindness And Deafness, And Knows From His Everyday Experience That The Look Of Things Is Influenced By His Senses; But It Never Occurs To Him To Regard The Whole World As The Creation Of His Senses.

Similarly, Many A Young Man, Hearing For The First Time Of The Refraction Of Stellar Light, Has Thought That Doubt Was Cast On The Whole Of Astronomy, Whereas Nothing Is Required But An Easily Effected And Unimportant Correction To Put Everything Right Again.

Scientists Must Use The Simplest Means Of Arriving At Their Results And Exclude Everything Not Perceived By The Senses.