 ... those by which another man is led to something of which the whole world rings. The features of the fruitful scientific mind are in the main three. In the first place, above all other things, his nature must be one which vibrates in unison with that...  Educational Review - Page 326edited by - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Zoology - 1901 - 770 pages
...urging just now, the greatness of many great names in science is often, in large part, the great ness of occasion, not of absolute power. The qualities...her way to call the same two things which differ, though the difference may be measured by less than the thousandth of a milligramme or of a millimetre,... | |
 | Chemistry - 1899 - 448 pages
...sometimes calls truthfulness. It is far more imperious, far more exaaing. Man, unscientific man, ¡в often content with " the nearly " and " the almost."...her way to call the same two things which differ, though the difference may be measured by lees than the thousandth of a milligramme or of a millimetre,... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1900 - 1202 pages
...In seeking an answer to this question we have not to inquire into the attributes of genius. Though much of the progress of science seems to take on the...her way to call the same two things which differ, though the difference may be measured by less than the thousandth of a milligramme or of a millimetre,... | |
 | Alex Hill - Science - 1900 - 172 pages
...after truth I .}• must himself be truthful, truthful with the truthfulness of IJ s nature. . . . Unscientific man is often content with the / / ' nearly ' and the ' almost.' Nature never is." This was the// doctrine preached by Sir Michael Foster in his address at/'' Dover as President of the... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - Science - 1903 - 582 pages
...must distinguish one another as able to observe or to record to this or that degree of truthfulness. " Man, unscientific man, is often content with ' the...her way to call the same two things which differ, though the difference may be measured by less than the thousandth of a milligramme or of a millimetre,... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - Science - 1911 - 276 pages
...observation, which is one of the elementary fallacies. 1 "Man, unscientific man," Sir Michael Foster said, "is often content with 'the nearly' and 'the almost.'...her way to call the same, two things which differ, though the difference may be measured by less than the thousandth of a milligramme or of a millimetre,... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - American essays - 1918 - 504 pages
...In seeking an answer to this question we have not to inquire into the attributes of genius. Though much of the progress of science seems to take on the...her way to call the same two things which differ, though the difference may be measured by less than a thousandth of a milligram or of a millimeter,... | |
 | Robert Emmons Rogers - English literature - 1921 - 352 pages
...In seeking an answer to this question we have not to inquire into the attributes of genius. Though much of the progress of science seems to take on the...her way to call the same two things which differ, though the difference may be measured by less than a thousandth of a milligramme or of a millimetre,... | |
 | Gustavus Watts Cunningham - Philosophy - 1924 - 480 pages
...difficult task; she accepts no short-cuts, nor will she be put off with mere guesses and approximations. " Man, unscientific man, is often content with ' the...her way to call the same, two things which differ, though the difference may be measured by less than the thousandth of a milligramme or of a millimetre,... | |
 | Gustavus Watts Cunningham - Philosophy - 1924 - 506 pages
...difficult task; she accepts no short-cut? nor will she be put off with mere guesses and approximations. " Man, unscientific man, is often content with ' the...nearly ' and ' the almost.' Nature never is. It is not ha way to call the same, two things which differ, though thi difference may be measured by less than... | |
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