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jasirs94 at Nov 20, 2016 02:06 AM

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that the surprising result of a laboratory experiment might be connected with the angular distance between two planets at the time,—he would, on the average have to make some half million of utterly wrong conjectures before he lit on the right one. But it is sufficient to consider the time, labour, and expense that are generally required in order positively to refute a respectable theory in physics, to convince us that had the mind of man no decided tendency toward making true physical conjectures physical science would not in two or three thousand years have made the brilliant start that it has made.

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