Empirical Interest Will Be In The Facts

If There Are Four Equations And Only Three Variables, And No One Of The Equations Is Derivable From The Others By Algebraic Manipulation Then There Is Another Variable Missing.

If Observed Facts Of Undoubted Accuracy Will Not Fit Any Of The Alternatives It Leaves Open, The System Itself Is In Need Of Reconstruction.

Spencers God Was Evolution, Sometimes Also Called Progress.

The Hypothesis May Be Put Forward, To Be Tested By The S Subsequent Investigation, That This Development Has Been In Large Part A Matter Of The Reciprocal Interaction Of New Factual Insights And Knowledge On The One Hand With Changes In The Theoretical System On The Other.

Science Is Intimately Integrated With The Whole Social Structure And Cultural Tradition. They Mutually Support One Other-only In Certain Types Of Society Can Science Flourish, And Conversely Without A Continuous And Healthy Development And Application Of Science Such A Society Cannot Function Properly.