Theodore William Richards Quote
The laws of nature cannot be intelligently applied until they are understood, and in order to understand them, many experiments bearing upon the ultimate nature of things must be made, in order that all may be combined in a far-reaching generalization impossible without the detailed knowledge upon which it rests.
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, (1918), The Problem of Radioactive Lead (p. 219)
