Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Gilbert , Grove Karl (1896), Presidential address [The origin of hypotheses], Retrieved on 2012-05-29
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    29 MAY 2012

     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.
    Folksonomies: nature science metaphor
    Folksonomies: nature science metaphor
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    Where the interest compounds and the growth is logarithmic(?).

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