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THE advance of science is sometimes described as taking place by leaps and bounds. This mode of expression serves to indicate the rapidity of general progress, but it scarcely suggests the existence of the long intervals in which stagnation was the notable feature in the advance of special branches of scientific investigation. Advance in one branch is frequently at a standstill, until some discovery in another subject has been made and found to be available in wider fields.
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NEWALL, H. Scientific Worthies: XLVII. George Ellery Hale. Nature 132, 1–6 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132001a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132001a0