Take away from physical science its laboratory apparatus and its mathematical technique, and the human imagination might run wild in its theories of interpretation even if we suppose the brute facts to remain the same.
This quote illustrates the importance of scientific methods in grounding theories, suggesting that without them, interpretations could become chaotic.
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