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  • Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'.

  • Examples ... which might be multiplied ad libitum, show how difficult it often is for an experimenter to interpret his results without the aid of mathematics.

  • The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other channel than a scientific society, which naturally hesitates to admit into its printed records matters of uncertain value. Perhaps one may go further and say that a young author who believes himself capable of great things would usually do well to secure the favourable recognition of the scientific world by work whose scope is limited and whose value is easily judged, before embarking upon higher flights.

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    "Introduction to Waterston's Memoir 'On the physics of media that are composed of free and perfectly elastic molecules in a state of motion'". Philosophical Transactions, p. 1-5, rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org. January 1, 1892.
  • The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error lurk where they are least expected, and that they may escape the notice of the most experienced and conscientious worker.

  • Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.

    "Classification and indexing in science". Book by Brian Campbell Vickery, 1958.
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