If the working hypothesis fails in any essential particular he [the scientist] is ready to modify or discard it. For the truly inspired investigator, one undoubted fact weighs more in the balance than a thousand theories.
The Processes of Life Revealed by the Microscope: A Plea for Physiological Histology, Science, N.S. Volume 2, Number 34, August 23, 1895 (p. 210)
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