As a science progresses, its power of foresight rapidly increases, until the mathematician in his library acquires the power of anticipating nature, and predicting what will happen in circumstances which the eye of man has never examined.


The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method, Chapter XXIV (p. 526), Macmillan & Co Ltd. 1887

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As a science progresses, its power of foresight rapidly increases, until the mathematician in his library acquires the power of anticipating nature,...

As a science progresses, its power of foresight rapidly increases, until the mathematician in his library acquires the power of anticipating nature,...

As a science progresses, its power of foresight rapidly increases, until the mathematician in his library acquires the power of anticipating nature,...

As a science progresses, its power of foresight rapidly increases, until the mathematician in his library acquires the power of anticipating nature,...