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For some unknown psychological reason, the appreciation of the possibilities of experiment as an intellectual tool and the ability to make use of its technique appear very late in the history of human development. A few individuals like Archimedes understood and practiced it, and it is difficult to understand why the seed which they sowed proved sterile.

— Henry A. Bumstead Chapter II. Physics in The Development of the Sciences (1923)

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