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From Bartlett's 14th edition (omitted from 15th and 16th), citing
Michaelson's address at the dedication ceremony for the Ryerson
Physical Laboratory at the University of Chicago in 1894: "The more
important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all
been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the
possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new
discoveries is exceedingly remote. ... Our future discoveries must
be looked for in the sixth place of decimals."