> [!cite] > Hippocrates. *Hippocrates. Volume I*. Edited by G. P. Goold. Translated by W. H. S. Jones. Loeb Classical Library. London: William Heinemann, 1923; reprinted 1984. Internet Archive. <https://archive.org/embed/hippocrates0000hipp>. --- ‘\[There is] a human instinct which assures us that progress requires the use of stop-gaps where complete and accurate knowledge is unattainable, and that a working hypothesis, although wrong, is better than no hypothesis.’ [[Hippocrates, Hippocrates. Volume I, trans. Jones, 1984|(Hippocrates, trans. Jones 1984, ix; ‘General Introduction’ by W. H. S. Jones)]] ^d88138 ‘The founder of empirical psychology and a student of astronomy, \[Alcmaeon] held that health consists of a state of balance between certain ‘opposites’, and disease an undue preponderance of one of them.’ [[Hippocrates, Hippocrates. Volume I, trans. Jones, 1984|(Hippocrates, trans. Jones 1984, ix; ‘General Introduction’ by W. H. S. Jones)]] ^4e7c97