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Quotation from Novum Organon Renovatum by William Whewell
“To try wrong guesses is, with most persons, the only way to hit upon right ones.”
Novum Organon Renovatum, Book II, ch. V, sect. II (Project Gutenberg text (3rd ed., 1858))
On Kepler and the place of conjecture in discovery.
Citation: "To try wrong guesses is, with most persons, the only way to hit upon right ones." — William Whewell, Novum Organon Renovatum, Book II, ch. V, sect. II (Project Gutenberg text (3rd ed., 1858)). (id whewell-novum-organon-renovatum-q6)
Portrait: W Whewell slnsw, Ernest Edwards, Public domain.
