Quote#Books & Reading
In science by a fiction as remarkable as any to be found in law, what…
Quote byJohn William Strutt · 1842–1919
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Lord Rayleigh (1884) as cited in: Brian Vickery (1958) Classification and indexing in science. Preface.
English (original)
In science by a fiction as remarkable as any to be found in law, what once been published even though it be in the Russian language, is spoken of as known, and it is too often forgotten that the rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.
— John William Strutt
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