Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair Quote

The great discoveries of science leave behind them no boundary line of demarcation from those which have preceded, but, like the full day succeeding the dawning of the sun, follow that which fully foretold their approach.


Records of the School of Mines and of Science Applied to the Arts, (Volume 1), Part I, The Study of Abstract Science (pp. 29-30)


The great discoveries of science leave behind them no boundary line of demarcation from those which have preceded, but, like the full day succeeding...

The great discoveries of science leave behind them no boundary line of demarcation from those which have preceded, but, like the full day succeeding...

The great discoveries of science leave behind them no boundary line of demarcation from those which have preceded, but, like the full day succeeding...

The great discoveries of science leave behind them no boundary line of demarcation from those which have preceded, but, like the full day succeeding...