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" In our conceptions and reasonings regarding the forces of nature, we perpetually make use of symbols which, when they possess a high representative value we dignify with the name of theories. Thus, prompted by certain analogies we ascribe electrical phenomena... "
Inventors at Work: With Chapters on Discovery - Page 369
by George Iles - 1906 - 503 pages
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Faraday as a Discoverer

John Tyndall - 1868 - 192 pages
...Thus, prompted by certain analogies we ascribe electrical phenomena to the action of a peculiar fluid, sometimes flowing, sometimes at rest. Such conceptions...of what has become its prison instead of its home.* ~No man ever felt this tyranny of symbols more deeply than Faraday, and no man was ever more assiduous...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

1868 - 472 pages
...Thus prompted by certain analogies, we ascribe electrical phenomena to the action of a peculiar fluid, sometimes flowing, sometimes at rest. Such conceptions...intellect for a time, but they also circumscribe it, and by and by, when the mind has grown too large for its lodging, it often finds difficulty in breaking...
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Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the ..., Volume 5

Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 pages
...Thus prompted by certain analogies we ascribe electrical phenomena to tho action of a peculiar fluid, sometimes flowing, sometimes at rest. Such conceptions...intellect for a time, but they also circumscribe it, and by and by, when tho mind has grown too large for its lodging, it often finds difficulty in breaking...
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Notices of the Proceedings, Volume 5

Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 646 pages
...afford peaceful lodging to the intellect for a time, but they also circumscribe it, and by and by, when the mind has grown too large for its lodging, it often finds difficulty in breaking down the walls-of what has becomo its prison instead of its home.* No man ever felt this tyranny of symbols...
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Faraday as a Discoverer

John Tyndall - 1870 - 238 pages
...Thus, prompted by certain analogies we ascribe electrical phenomena to the action of a peculiar fluid, sometimes flowing, sometimes at rest. Such conceptions...also circumscribe it, and by-and-by, when the mind F has grown too large for its lodging, it often finds difficulty in breaking down the walls of what...
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Researches on Diamagnetism and Magne-crystallic Action: Including the ...

John Tyndall - 1870 - 452 pages
...and prompted by certain analogies we ascribe electrical phenomena to the action of a peculiar fluid. Such conceptions have their advantages and their disadvantages...intellect for a time, but they also circumscribe it ; and by and by, when the mind has grown too large for its mansion, it often finds a difficulty in breaking...
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Faraday as a Discoverer

John Tyndall - 1873 - 202 pages
...ascribe electrical phenomena to the action of a peculiar fluid, sometimes flowing, sometimes at rests Such conceptions have their advantages and their disadvantages;...of what has become its prison instead of its home.^ 'No man ever felt this tyranny of symbols more deeply than Faraday, and no man was ever more assiduous...
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Faraday as a Discoverer

John Tyndall - 1877 - 208 pages
...of a peculiar fluid, sometimes flowing, sometimes at rest. Such conceptions have their ad vantages and their disadvantages ; they afford peaceful lodging...of what has become its prison instead of its home.* ISFo man ever felt this tyranny of symbols more deeply than Faraday, and no man was ever more assiduous...
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College and Clinical Record, Volume 6

1885 - 276 pages
...his growing knowledge must have found it. To quote Tyhdall's happy metaphor, " Symbolic conceptions afford peaceful lodging to the intellect for a time, but they also circumscribe it, and by and by, when the mind has grown too large for its lodging, it often finds difficulty in breaking...
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Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 18

Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1889 - 468 pages
...Thus, prompted by certain analogies, we ascribe electrical phenomena to the action of a peculiar fluid, sometimes flowing, sometimes at rest. Such conceptions...intellect for a time, but they also circumscribe it, and by-arid-by, when the mind has grown too large for its lodging, it often iinds difficulty in breaking...
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