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IN discussing the best ways of fostering research work it is important to remember that the word “research” is used in two widely distinct senses: it may stand either for the careful collection of observations, or for the deduction of the principles expressing the relationship between one set of phenomena and another. The difference between them is like that between the discovery of a new country and the careful mapping of one known in a general way but not in full detail.
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RUSSELL, E. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 105, 7 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105007a0
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