Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery… — William Cecil Dampier Copy Share Image
But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old questions of… — William Cecil Dampier Copy Share Image
The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent… — William Cecil Dampier Copy Share Image
Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.. — William Cecil Dampier Copy Share Image
If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger is always… — William Cecil Dampier Copy Share Image
There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of… — William Cecil Dampier Copy Share Image
It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to be done but to… — William Cecil Dampier Copy Share Image
