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Experience has shown that it is dangerous to start from general principles and proceed deductively, both because the principles may be untrue and because the reasoning based upon them may be fallacious. ...
But whereas, in mediaeval thinking, the most general principles were the starting point, in science they are the final conclusion -- final, that is to say, at a given moment, though liable to become instances of some still wider law at a later stage.
Source: Religion and Science, 1935, by Bertrand Russell
More info.: https://russell-j.com/beginner/RS1935_01-050.HTM