Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued... Inventors at Work: With Chapters on Discovery - Page 217by George Iles - 1906 - 503 pagesFull view - About this book
| Chemical Society (Great Britain) - 1911 - 1324 pages
...Jowett), 1876, Vol. IV., p. 104. Lord Kelvin said : " Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified...all the grandest discoveries of science have been the rewards of accurate measurement and patient, long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 546 pages
...choose some of those which have struck me as most notable. Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified...of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grandest discovery... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 662 pages
...choose some of those which have struck me as most notable. Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified...of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grandest discovery... | |
| 1872 - 342 pages
...address to the British Association, says, " accurate and minute measurement seems to the more scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking...of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results." Professor Tait, in his opening address to the Physical... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - 728 pages
...choose some of those which have struck mo as most notable. Accurate and minute measurement seems to tho non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified...But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science havo been but tho rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting... | |
| 1872 - 318 pages
...in promoting accurate measurement in various subjects. To the non-scientific imagination this seems a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something...But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science, including Newton's discovery of the law of gravitation, have been but the rewards of accurate measurement... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - 716 pages
...the British Association would bo thoroughly appropriate. Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly ¡ill the grandest discoveries erf science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient... | |
| 1874 - 352 pages
...it is necessary that mirnerical results should be sought for and obtained. •' Nearly all the grand discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results," is a principle enunciated in the... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1875 - 710 pages
...constituting an exact science. ' Accurate and minute measurement,' says Sir William Thomson, ' seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified...of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.' (Address to the British Association, 1871.) In... | |
| South Kensington museum (Londres / 1852-1899). - 1876 - 450 pages
...members of the British Association, in which he says, " Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified...of accurate measurement and patient longcontinued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grand discovery is... | |
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