A

Topic

aim

/aim-quotes-and-sayings

224 Quotes

Topic Summary

About the aim quote collection

The aim page groups 224 quotes under one canonical topic hub so readers and answer engines can cite a stable source instead of fragmented search results.

Topic Feed

Quotes filed under aim

"

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.

AN
Anonymous

Lectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford, F.R.S.