Always try to explain the unknown by the known. If you meet something which you have not seen before, then think of the thing most like it, which you have seen before; and try if that which you know explains the one will not explain the other also.


Scientific Lectures and Essays, Chapter I (p. 31), Macmillan & Co Ltd. 1893


Always try to explain the unknown by the known. If you meet something which you have not seen before, then think of the thing most like it, which you ...

Always try to explain the unknown by the known. If you meet something which you have not seen before, then think of the thing most like it, which you ...

Always try to explain the unknown by the known. If you meet something which you have not seen before, then think of the thing most like it, which you ...

Always try to explain the unknown by the known. If you meet something which you have not seen before, then think of the thing most like it, which you ...