It is the desire for explanations that are.... : Quote by Ernest Nagel

“ It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences. ”

Ernest Nagel
  • From : The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation
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