“Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.”
Quotes by William Whewell
“And so no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.”
“Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.”
William WhewellWilliam Whewell was an English polymath known for his wide-ranging contributions to science, philosophy, and literature. As the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, he distinguished himself in both p...