It frequently happens that a great discovery supplies the wanting links between a number of obscure facts, and thus adds quite as much to our knowledge by its indirect bearings as by the positive additions it makes to the general stock.

Another quote →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Josiah Parsons Cooke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.