Full Idea
Scientific cognition demands surrender to the life of the object, or, what amounts to the same thing, confronting and expressing its inner necessity.
Gist of Idea
Science confronts the inner necessities of objects
Source
Georg W.F.Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit [1807], Pref 53)
Book Reference
Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'Phenomenology of Spirit', ed/tr. Miller,A.V. /Findlay,J.N. [OUP 1977], p.32
A Reaction
This strikes me as being a much better account of what science tries to do than all the modern talk about laws and theories.