Science and hypothesis by Henri Poincaré

It is to be hoped that, as a consequence of the present active scrutiny of our educational aims and methods, and of the resulting encouragement of the study of modern languages, we shall not remain, as a nation, so much isolated from ideas and tendencies in continental thought and literature as we have been in the past. As things
are, however, the translation of this book is doubtless required; at any rate, it brings vividly before us an instructive point of view.