Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions which are not immediately derived from facts.
Father of modern chemistry
From his writings on scientific method, cautioning against unbridled imagination.
Undated, but from his major works.
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