 The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination ; that in the most successful instances...  Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics - Page 480by Michael Faraday - 1859 - 496 pagesFull view - About this book
 | EDWARDL.YOUMANS,M.D. - 1863 - 468 pages
...ellipse ; and Dr. FABADAY remarks : * The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator...have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own adverse criticism.' 25. Theory means literally a view. It is an accepted hypothesis ; an explanation... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1866 - 480 pages
...ellipse; and Dr. FABADAY remarks: ' The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator...have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own adverse criticism.' 25. Theory means literally a view. It is an accepted hypothesis ; an explanation... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1867 - 504 pages
...verification of their own views. The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator...And is a man so occupied to be taken from his search after truth in the path he hopes may lead to its attainment, and occupied in vain upon nothing but... | |
 | Modern culture - 1867 - 458 pages
...verification of their own views. The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator...And is a man so occupied to be taken from his search after truth in the path he hopes may lead to its attainment, and occupied in vain upon nothing but... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1867 - 490 pages
...verification of their own views. The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator...examination ; that in the most successful instances not a ten^h of the suggestions, the hopes, the wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized. And... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1913 - 788 pages
...well-known passage Faraday says : — " The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator...the wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realised." But a hypothesis to be useful, to be admitted as a candidate for rank as a scientific theory,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1913 - 810 pages
...well-known passage Faraday says : — " The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator...the wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realised." But a hypothesis to be useful, to be admitted as a candidate for rank as a scientific theory,... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1870 - 420 pages
...Faraday has himself said that — " The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator,...the preliminary conclusions have been realized*." The student is strongly recommended to read Sir J. Herschel's Preliminary Discourse on the Study of... | |
 | Nathan Smith Davis - 1870 - 804 pages
...celebrated chemist, Faraday, has said: "the world little knows how many thoughts and theories, which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator,...have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own adverse criticism." All theories and generalizations are of use in scientific investigations, and have,... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1874 - 498 pages
...ellipse ; and Dr. FARADAY remarks : ' The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator...have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own adverse criticism.' 25. Theory means literally a view. It is an accepted hypothesis ; an explanation... | |
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