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Quotation from Generation of Animals by Aristotle
“credit must be given rather to observation than to theories, and to theories only if what they affirm agrees with the observed facts”
Generation of Animals, Book III, Ch. 10 (760b), trans. Arthur Platt (1910)
The closing rule of the chapter on bees, after admitting the facts are not yet established.
Citation: "credit must be given rather to observation than to theories, and to theories only if what they affirm agrees with the observed facts" — Aristotle, Generation of Animals, Book III, Ch. 10 (760b), trans. Arthur Platt (1910). (id aristotle-generation-of-animals-q10)
