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IN his admirable work on “The Principles of Science,” the late Prof. Jevons thus sums up the characteristic mental attributes of the great scientific discoverer:— “He must be fertile in theories and hypotheses, and yet full of facts and precise results of experience. He must entertain the feeblest analogies and the merest guesses at truth, and yet he must hold them as worthless till they are verified in experiment. Where there are any grounds of probability, he must hold tenaciously an old opinion, and yet he must be prepared at any moment to relinquish it when a single clearly contradictory fact is encountered.”
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BLANFORD, H. M. Faye's Theory of Cyclones. Nature 44, 348–350 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044348a0
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