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In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

James Clerk Maxwell
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James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.209, CUP Archive
In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.