Science

The great danger which besets all men of large speculative faculty, is the temptation to deal with the accepted statements of fact in natural science, as if they were not only correct but exhaustive; as if they might be dealt with deductively, in the same way as the propositions of Euclid may be dealt with



In reality, every such statement, however true it may be, is true only relatively to the means of observation & the point of view of those who have enunciated it. So far it may be depended upon. But whether it will bear every speculative conclusion that may be logically deduced from it, is quite another question


TH Huxley