"In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data."

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InventorsAcademics from ScotlandPresbyteriansPhysicists from ScotlandMathematicians from Scotland
Original Language: English

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Letter to Lewis Campbell (9 November 1851) in Ch. 6 : Undergraduate Life At Cambridge October 1850 to January 1854 — ÆT. 19-22, p. 159