“This skeptical method consists very much in vicious circles. You cannot know whether a fact be a fact till you have ascertained the laws of nature in the case, and you cannot know the laws of nature till you have ascertained facts.”

—  Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802)

Source: Testimony: its Posture in the Scientific World (1859), p. 9

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