verneinen

Updated: May 1, 2025

Science is the consensus of opinion of scientific men, and history has shown that it is slow to accept a truth. Science sneered at Newton for twenty years. Science proved mathematically that an iron ship could not swim, and science declared that a steamship could not cross the Atlantic. Like Goethe's Mephistopheles, our wise professor's forte is "stets verneinen."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Mystery of Cloomber