ACCIDENTAL INVENTIONS.
• No one, who fairly considers the real nature of great discoveries, and the intellectual processes which they involve, can seriously hold the opinion of their being the effect of accident. . . Such accidents never happen to common men. Thousands of men, even the most inquiring speculative, had seen bodies fall; but who, except Newton, ever followed the accident to such consequences ? . . . How much previous thought, what a steady conception of the universality of the laws of motion gathered from other sources, were requisite, that the inquirer should see any connection iv these cases!'—Professor \\ uewell.
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Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 426, 22 November 1861, Page 3
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95ACCIDENTAL INVENTIONS. Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 426, 22 November 1861, Page 3
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