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CAN ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY BE AN EXACT SCIENCE?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. R. Thompson
W. R. Thompson
Affiliation:
Commonwealth Bureau of Biological Control, Ottawa, Ont.
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Whether Economic Entomology can be an exact science is, I think, a question in which we should all be interested. I propose therefore to examine it with the care that it deserves though I will try to make the discussion as brief as possible.

Broadlly speaking, the sciences can be divided into two classes: the speculative sciences, whose object is simply the discovery of truth: new facts or new laws; and the practical sciences, whose objest is the production of facts: causing something new to happen.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 80 , Issue 1-12 , January 1948 , pp. 49 - 55
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1948

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