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THE death of Prof. T. W. Richards on April 2, at the comparatively early age of sixty years, is a grave loss to science. His contributions to knowledge were so valuable and cover so wide a field that it is impossible here to do more than indicate their scope: yet it is not difficult to grasp the secret of his greatness. He once quoted, as an expression of his own views, Plato's saying that “if arithmetic, mensuration, and weighing be taken away from any art, that which remains will not be much.” All that Richards did testifies to his belief that the development of natural knowledge is primarily dependent upon measurement.
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BRISCOE, H. Prof. T. W. Richards, For. Mem. R.S. Nature 122, 28–29 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122028a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122028a0