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In the progress of an art, from its rudest to its more perfect state, the whole process depends upon experiment. Science is in fact nothing more than the refinement of common sense making use of facts already known to acquire new facts.
John Davy
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Born:
May 24, 1790
Died:
January 24, 1868
(aged 77)
Bio:
John Davy MD FRS FRSE was a Cornish doctor, amateur chemist, and brother of the noted chemist Sir Humphry Davy, and cousin of Edmund Davy.
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