 | Norman Macleod - 1871 - 940 pages
...be openly acknowledged." " All this is a dream" he cries ; " still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...such things as these experiment is the best test of consistency." And he even raxes clear and deliberate in warning: — •'As I begin by a warning against... | |
 | 1870 - 682 pages
...great philosopher already quoted said, in reference to some speculations on the gravitating forco, " Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...experiment is the best test of such consistency." The modes of reasoning of scientific men appear to be generally misunderstood by spiritualists with whom... | |
 | Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - 1870 - 514 pages
...examination and thought, and ends saying : 'ALL THIS is A DREAM. Still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...experiment is the best test of such consistency.' Again, March 28, he writes : ' If there should happen to be any result of the kind imagined, then a... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1873 - 448 pages
...be openly acknowledged." " All this is a dream," he cries ; " still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...such things as these experiment is the best test of consistency." And he even waxes clear and deliberate in warning : — "As I begin by a warning against... | |
 | H. A. Page - 1873 - 448 pages
...be openly acknowledged." " All this is a dream," he cries ; " still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...such things as these experiment is the best test of consistency." And he even waxes clear and deliberate in warning : — " As I begin by a warning against... | |
 | William Crookes - 1874 - 124 pages
...great philosopher already quoted said, in reference to some speculations on the gravitating force, " Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...experiment is the best test of such consistency." The modes of reasoning of scientific men appear to be generally misunderstood by spiritualists with whom... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1874 - 502 pages
...motion was reversed. ' All this is a dream,' he remarks ; ' still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...experiment is the best test of such consistency.' He executed many difficult and tedious experiments, which are described in the 24th Series of Experimental... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1874 - 524 pages
...the motion was reversed. ' All this is a dream,' he remarks; ' still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature; h See also his more formal statement in the ' Experimental Researches in Electricity,' 24th Series,... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1874 - 984 pages
...statement in the ' Experimental Researches in Electricity,' 24th Series, § 2702, vol. iii. p. 161. and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency.' He executed many difficult and tedious experiments, which are described in the 24th Series of Experimental... | |
 | Henry Steel Olcott - 1875 - 508 pages
...his delicately poised balance to move under test conditions." Again, he says in the same article : " The first requisite is to be sure of facts ; then...laws. Accuracy and knowledge of detail stand foremost among the great aims of modern scientific men. No observations are of much use to the student of science... | |
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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of Nature ; and in such things as these experiment is the best test of consistency. 
