David Brewster Quote

It is often some hidden relation, some deep-seated affinity, which is required to complete, or rather to constitute, a great discovery; and this relation is often discovered among the wildest conceptions and fancies after they have been sobered down by the application of experiment and observation.


In: Margaret Maria Gordon, The Home Life of Sir David Brewster (3rd edition)


It is often some hidden relation, some deep-seated affinity, which is required to complete, or rather to constitute, a great discovery; and this...

It is often some hidden relation, some deep-seated affinity, which is required to complete, or rather to constitute, a great discovery; and this...

It is often some hidden relation, some deep-seated affinity, which is required to complete, or rather to constitute, a great discovery; and this...

It is often some hidden relation, some deep-seated affinity, which is required to complete, or rather to constitute, a great discovery; and this...