 I look upon our English system as a wickedly brain-destroying piece of bondage under which we suffer. The reason why we continue to use it is the imaginary difficulty of making a change, and nothing else; but I do not think in America that any such difficulty...  Nature - Page 60edited by - 1885Full view - About this book
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 760 pages
...seriously. I do not think any one knows how seriously I speak of ¡I. I look upon our English system as a wickedly brain-destroying piece of bondage under...resigned the Cavendish Professorship of Experimental Physics. The electors are Sir W. Thomson, Sir William (Justice) Grove, Profs. Liveing, Stokes, Darwin,... | |
 | 1885 - 686 pages
...seriously. I do not think anyone knows how seriously I speak of it. I look upon our English system as a wickedly braindestroying piece of bondage under...imaginary difficulty of making a change, and nothing eke ; but I do not think in America that any such difficulty should stand in the way of adopting so... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 688 pages
...seriously. I do not think any one knows how seriously I speak of it. I look upon our English system a-; a wickedly brain-destroying piece of bondage under...it is the imaginary difficulty of making a change, ami nothing else ; but I do not think in America that any such difficulty should stand in the way of... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 662 pages
...seriously. I do not think any one knows how seriously I speak of it. I look upon our English system a. a wickedly brain-destroying piece of bondage under...which we suffer. The reason why we continue to use U is the imaginary difficulty of making a change, and nothing else ; but I do not think in America... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1889 - 486 pages
...seriously : I do not think any one knows how seriously I speak of it. I look upon our English system as a wickedly brain-destroying piece of bondage under...the way of adopting so splendidly useful a reform. I know the velocity of sound in feet per second. If I remember rightly, it is io89 feet per second... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1891 - 512 pages
...seriously : I do not thiiHf any one knows how seriously I speak of it, I look upon our English system as a wickedly brain-destroying piece of bondage under...continue to use it is the imaginary difficulty of making u change, and nothing else ; but I do not think i1t America that any such difficulty should stand III... | |
 | 1910 - 380 pages
...seriously: I do not think any one knows how seriously I speak of it. I look upon our English system as a wickedly brain-destroying piece of bondage under...the way of adopting so splendidly useful a reform. I know the velocity of sound in feet per second. If I remember rightly, it is 1089 feet per second... | |
 | 1910 - 398 pages
...seriously: I do not think any one knows how seriously I-speak of it. I look upon our English system as a wickedly brain-destroying piece of bondage under...the way of adopting so splendidly useful a reform. I know the velocity of sound in feet per second. If I remember rightly, it is 1089 feet per second... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - 766 pages
...slip in the American schools any more than the use of the globes." " I look upon our English system as a wickedly brain-destroying piece of bondage under which we suffer." " The luminiferous ether ... is the only substance we are confident of in dynamics. One thing we are sure... | |
 | 1885 - 498 pages
...seriously. I do not think any one knows how seriously J speak of it. I look upon our English system as a wickedly brain-destroying piece of bondage under...the way of adopting so splendidly useful a reform." ELECTRIC RAILWAY PROSPECTS. VIEWS OF EMINENT ELECTRICAL EXPERTS. THE possibility of the practical application... | |
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