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" The whole tendency of empirical art is to bury itself in technicalities, and to place its pride in particular short cuts and mysteries known only to adepts: to surprise and astonish by results, but conceal processes. The character of science is the direct... "
An Elementary Treatise on Steam: More Particularly as Applicable to the ... - Page viii
by Robert Otway - 1837 - 259 pages
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The American Library of Useful Knowledge, Volume 1

1831 - 336 pages
...cuts and mysteries known only to adepts: to surprise and astonish by results, but conceal processes. The character of science is the direct contrary. It delights to lay itself open to inquiry, and is not satisfied with its conclusions, till it can make the road to them broad and beaten...
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A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy

John Frederick William Herschel - 1831 - 310 pages
...cuts and mysteries known only to adepts ; to surprise and astonish by results, but conceal processes. The character of science is the direct contrary. It delights to lay itself open to inquiry, and is not satisfied with its conclusions till it can make the road to them broad and beaten...
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The American Library of Useful Knowledge, Volume 1

1831 - 336 pages
...cuts and mysteries known only to adepts ; to surprise and astonish by results, but conceal processes. The character of science is the direct contrary. It delights to lay itself open to inquiry, and is not satisfied with its conclusions, till it can make the road to them broad and beaten...
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The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, Volume 8

1832 - 780 pages
...surprise and astonish by results ; but to conceal processes. The character of science is directly the contrary. It delights to lay itself open to enquiry ; and is not satisfied with its conclusions, till it make the road to them broad and beaten : and in its application it preserves...
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The Gardener's Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, Volume 8

1832 - 778 pages
...their having neglected, or not understood, those principles and laws of nature. , , , , . directly the contrary. It delights to lay itself open to enquiry; and is not satisfied with its conclusions, till it make the road to them broad and beaten : and in its application it preserves...
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Magazine of Botany and Gardening British and Foreign ..., Volumes 1-2

1833 - 494 pages
...cuts and mysteries known only to adepts ; to surprise and astonish by results, but conceal processes. The character of science is the direct contrary. It delights to lay itself open to inquiry ; and is not satisfied with its conclusions, till it can make the road to them broad and beaten...
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The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, Volume 4

William Laxton - 1841 - 534 pages
...and mysteries known only to adepts; to surprise and astonish by results, but to conceal processes. The character of science is the direct contrary. It delights to lay itself open to inquiry, and is not satisfied with its conclusion till it can make the roadto them broad and beaten...
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Alpha [by M.E.M. Jones. In verse].

Margaret Lawrence Jones - 1841 - 132 pages
...mankind is capable of throwing on every subject, even in the elucidation of principles It " (Science) " delights to lay itself open to enquiry ; and is not satisfied with its conclusions, till it can make the road to them broad and beaten : and in its applications it preserves...
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The Doctrine of Changes as Applicable Both to the Institutions of Social ...

Thomas Wright (of Borthwick, Scotland.) - 1844 - 572 pages
...cuts and mysteries known only to adepts ; to surprise and astonish by results, but conceal processes. The character of science is the direct contrary. It delights to lay itself open to inquiry ; and is not satisfied with its conclusions, till it can make the road to them broad and beaten...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...cuts and mysteries known only to adepts ; to surprise and astonish by results, but conceal processes. The character of science is the direct contrary. It delights to lay itself open to inquiry ; and is not satisfied with its conclusions, till it can make the road to them broad and beaten...
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