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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this–that men despair and think things impossible.
Translation of Novum Organum, CIX. In Francis Bacon, James Spedding, The Works of Francis Bacon (1864), Vol. 8, 140-141.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
In Science and the Modern World (1925, 1997), 4.
