In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.
William Whewell, Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840), Aphorism 25.
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Science gives us best approximations of truth but generally fails to arrive at truth, and has no means of recognizing any case in which the end has been reached, so that science might get just there and then wander off. But nothing better that a best approximation is possible by any means.
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Science gives us best approximations of truth but generally fails to arrive at truth, and has no means of recognizing any case in which the end has been reached, so that science might get just there and then wander off. But nothing better that a best approximation is possible by any means.