Author: Cleveland Abbe

Quotes

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

- Cleveland Abbe

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

- Cleveland Abbe

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

- Cleveland Abbe

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