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natural world.
Harry Brown • Golf Ball (Object Lessons)
Others, including Priestley and both Darwins, used their commonplace books as a repository for a vast miscellany of hunches.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
asperity
Robert Harris • The Fear Index
deceiving researcher after researcher down through the ages, all of whom will make new errors on the strength of the original errors, and so on and on into an exponential explosion of errata.”
John McPhee • Draft No. 4
“Friday night experiments” (FNEs).
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
professor later explained that these were “Fermi
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy. Herschel gave particular emphasis to what he called residual phenomena.