The accumulation of facts is indispensable to the growth of science, a thousand facts are of less value to human progress than is a single one when it is scientifically comprehended, for it then becomes generalised in all similar cases.


Inaugural Address, Nature, Volume 32, September 10, 1885 (p. 443)

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The accumulation of facts is indispensable to the growth of science, a thousand facts are of less value to human progress than is a single one when...

The accumulation of facts is indispensable to the growth of science, a thousand facts are of less value to human progress than is a single one when...

The accumulation of facts is indispensable to the growth of science, a thousand facts are of less value to human progress than is a single one when...

The accumulation of facts is indispensable to the growth of science, a thousand facts are of less value to human progress than is a single one when...