Edward Everett Quote

It usually happens in scientific progress, that when a great fact is at length discovered, it approves itself at once to all competent judges. It furnishes a solution to so many problems, and harmonizes with so many other facts, — that all the other data as it were crystallize at once about it.


The Uses of Astronomy, An Oration Delivered at Albany on the 28th of July, 1856 (p. 30)


It usually happens in scientific progress, that when a great fact is at length discovered, it approves itself at once to all competent judges. It...

It usually happens in scientific progress, that when a great fact is at length discovered, it approves itself at once to all competent judges. It...

It usually happens in scientific progress, that when a great fact is at length discovered, it approves itself at once to all competent judges. It...

It usually happens in scientific progress, that when a great fact is at length discovered, it approves itself at once to all competent judges. It...