Patterns of Discovery Quotes

“Perception is theory-laden.”
― Norwood Russell Hanson, Patterns of Discovery: An Inquiry into the Conceptual Foundations of Science

“Instantaneous interpretation hails from the Limbo that produced unsensed sensibilia, unconscious inference, incorrigible statements, negative facts and Objektive. These are ideas which philosophers force on the world to preserve some pet epistemological or metaphysical theory.”
― Norwood Russell Hanson, Patterns of Discovery: An Inquiry into the Conceptual Foundations of Science

“There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.”
― Norwood Russell Hanson, Patterns of Discovery: An Inquiry into the Conceptual Foundations of Science