Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) physicist
From Gibbs's letter accepting the Rumford Medal (1881). Quoted in A. L. Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London, 1994).
“The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
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