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BUT on that account, I say, we ought not to reject the ancient Art, as
if it were not, and had not been properly founded, because it did
not attain accuracy in all things, but rather, since it is capable of
reaching to the greatest exactitude by reasoning, to receive it and
admire its discoveries, made from a state of great ignorance, and as
having been well and properly made, and not from chance. (Hippocrates,
On Ancient Medicine, Adams edition, Vol. 1, 1849, p. 168.)


THE true and lawful goal of the sciences is none other than this: that
human life be endowed with new discoveries and powers. (Francis Bacon,
Novum Organum, Aphorisms, LXXXI, Spedding's translation.)


A GOLDEN thread has run throughout the history of the world, consecutive
and continuous, the work of the best men in successive ages. From point
to point it still runs, and when near you feel it as the clear and
bright and searchingly irresistible light which Truth throws forth when
great minds conceive it. (Walter Moxon, Pilocereus Senilis and Other
Papers, 1887, p. 4.)