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Feb 1929
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1929natur.123..161l&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 123, Issue 3092, pp. 161 (1929).
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ON page 84 of NATURE for Jan. 19, Mr. McLennan expresses polite surprise that I allow myself to accept results, even on good evidence, which are repugnant to uninstructed common sense, or in other words, which run counter to the prejudices born of lifelong experience. Unfortunately, it has been my lot to come across phenomena so superficially alien to common sense that they are not acceptable to the scientific world, though they nevertheless presumptuously occur. Apart from those untoward happenings, however, and on more ordinary lines, we have to admit that common sense is not always a trustworthy guide in the face of evidence to the contrary. Even 1 and 1 are not always 2 when the units are concrete things, especially when the element of time is allowed to function. If they are mercury globules, in a little while the result may be still 1; whereas if they are amœbæ the result may be 4. Simple addition is not always the correct rule for compounding quantities; any more than the rule-of-three need be valid when simple proportion is not guaranteed.
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