William Whewell

"Our assent to the hypothesis implies that it is held to be true of all particular instances. That these cases belong to past or to future times, that they have or have not already occurred, makes no d…"

"The philosophy of the inductive sciences, founded upon their history"

"We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed."

"According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man’s faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. Th…"

"In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end."

"It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena."

"Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirel…"

"Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation."