It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.


Imagination in Science, inaugural lecture (1878), trans. G. F. Springer (1967)


It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.