As in common life he who best knows how to meet the many difficulties and to utilise the various opportunities which life presents is the successful man, so in scientific discovery he is successful who is able to seize upon and rightly understand the meaning of the phenomena which all eyes witness but only those of the seer can interpret.


Essays and Addresses, Lecture II (p. 34), Macmillan & Co Ltd. 1874


As in common life he who best knows how to meet the many difficulties and to utilise the various opportunities which life presents is the successful...

As in common life he who best knows how to meet the many difficulties and to utilise the various opportunities which life presents is the successful...

As in common life he who best knows how to meet the many difficulties and to utilise the various opportunities which life presents is the successful...

As in common life he who best knows how to meet the many difficulties and to utilise the various opportunities which life presents is the successful...