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“Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.”

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William Ian Beardmore Beveridge was a British author born in Scotland in 1908. His works spanned a variety of fields, including history, biography, and philosophy, and were known for their unique perspective and profound insights. more

“The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when lightning happens to fall upon some terrestrial object, or when water is electrolysed, has been engaging my attention the last couple of years, and induced me to make many attempts at clearing up that mysterious phenomenon. Though baffled for a long time, at last, I think, I have succeeded so far as to have got the clue which will lead to the discovery of the true cause of the smell in question.”

“There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.”

Years Light Running Science Discovery Physics Logical Staircases Light Years

Author:Norwood Russell Hanson

“This investigation has yielded an unanticipated result that reaction of cyanic acid with ammonia gives urea, a noteworthy result in as much as it provides an example of the artificial production of an organic, indeed a so-called animal, substance from inorganic substances.”

Giving Science Animal Results Example Discovery Productions Reactions Substance Artificial Investigation Acid

Author:Friedrich Wohler

“This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its turn, for the discovery of the one following it in its order of distances from the Sun. Thus, at least, we should unhappily soon fall among bodies invisible by reason of their immense distance, but whose orbits might yet be traced in a succession of ages, with the greatest exactness, by the theory of Secular Inequalities.”

“To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.”

Science Understanding Discovery

Author:Abraham Pais

“When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting his pulse, that the duration of the oscillations was independent of the arc through which it moved, who could know that this discovery would eventually put it in our power, by means of the pendulum, to attain an accuracy in the measurement of time till then deemed impossible, and would enable the storm-tossed seaman in the most distant oceans to determine in what degree of longitude he was sailing?”

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

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