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Science Not Infallible

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 30, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 31.

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Science Not Infallible

Science not Infallible.—It is said that Senator Frye told Agassiz that he had caught a speckled trout weighing eight pounds. Agassiz told him speckled trout never attained that weight. For answer Senator Frye caught a nine-pound speckled trout, and sent it to Professor Agassiz, who replied in a telegram, “The science of a life-time kicked to death by a fact.” And just now not a few conclusions of “the science of a life-time” are undergoing death in the same way.