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Speaking exclusively of observational and experimental sciences, it is obvious that progress can be accomplished only at the cost of destroying or modifying current theories; for if a theory suffices to explain facts discovered after its promulgation, knowledge may be increased; but there is no true progress unless our general outlook is altered.

Alfred Walter Stewart

Alfred Walter Stewart

Alfred Walter Stewart

Born: September, 1880

Died: July 1, 1947 (aged 66)

Bio: Alfred Walter Stewart was a British chemist and part-time novelist who wrote seventeen detective novels and a pioneering science fiction work between 1923 and 1947 under the pseudonym of JJ Connington.

Known for:

Murder in the Maze (1927)
The Case With Nine Solutions (1928)
Nordenholt's Million (1923)
The Castleford Conundrum (1932)
The Dangerfield Talisman (1926)

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