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THERE is among the general public a perennial tendency to exalt and honour the man of affairs—the man whose business it is to pose as figurehead and carry through great schemes in the face of the community—at the expense of the quiet student or the scientific pioneer. And every now and then this permanent tendency is played upon by someone who ought to know better, and excited into more conspicuous vitality; sometimes taking the form of a demonstration in favour of “practice” as opposed to “theory,” sometimes the form of a flow of ribaldry against scientific methods and results. Such a periodical outburst seems to have broken loose just now, and the technical press is full of scoffs at men of science, and glorification of the principle of rule-of-thumb.
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Empiricism Versus Science . Nature 38, 609–611 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038609a0
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