“We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.”
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“[T]he task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases.”
— Karl Pearson, book The Grammar of Science
Introductory
The Grammar of Science (1900)
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