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Excerpt from Notes on Chemical Research: An Account of Certain Conditions Which Apply to Original Investigation
Modern science is based on the record of past investigation. This condition must therefore apply to chemistry, which is essentially an experimental science.
While original investigation remains an impor tant factor in further progress, those engaged in any branch of science must have some knowledge of the general conditions under which such work has been undertaken ln the past; and realise that it can only be undertaken by an investigator who has reached a stage in his development, at which he is able to think in terms of his science. He must become one with his work.
A mere knowledge of facts and principles, how ever complete ln itself, is an insufficient equipment. A student may possess this, and yet occupy an isolated position. Many who seem well qualified by examina tion, or otherwise, fail in the initiation of such work, for they cannot make practical use of such knowledge and apply it to the further investigation of natural phenomena.
Other important conditions are involved in work of this nature. They are of little account in the absence of this controlling factor, which brings with it the power of seeing into things and realising the relative importance of observations made under definite conditions, and the correctness, and value, of any deductions arising from the same.
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