Knowledge of Nature is Like an Account at the Bank
Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.
Notes:
Where the interest compounds and the growth is logarithmic(?).
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Presidential address [The origin of hypotheses]
