 New knowledge, when to any purpose, must come by contemplation of old knowledge, in every matter which concerns thought ; mechanical contrivance sometimes, not very often, escapes this rule. All the men who are now called discoverers, in every matter...  The Quarterly Journal of Science - Page 3481873Full view - About this book
 | Augustus De Morgan - 1872 - 530 pages
...and that they should first do this is what both those classes of others have a fair right to expect. New knowledge, when to any purpose, must come by contemplation...of their predecessors, and learned in what had been before them. There is not one exception. I do not say that every man has made direct acquaintance with... | |
 | Guy's Hospital - 1877 - 578 pages
...process. I do not know that one is justified in endorsingre fully the opinion of De Morgan, who says, " All the men who are now called discoverers in every...of their predecessors and learned in what had been before them. There is not one exception. I do not say that every man has made direct acquaintance with... | |
 | George Gore - 1878 - 688 pages
...any purpose, must come by contemplation of old knowledge, in every matter which concerns thought.' 4 All the men who are now called discoverers, in every...of their predecessors, and learned in what had been before them. There is not one exception.' ' It is remarkable how many of the greatest names in all... | |
 | George Gore - 1878 - 696 pages
...terra-finna of the known, in order to stretch outwards into the darkness and uncertainty of the unknown. ' New knowledge, when to any purpose, must come by contemplation...knowledge, in every matter which concerns thought.' ' All the men who are now called discoverers, in every matter ruled by thought, have been men versed... | |
 | George Gore - 1878 - 694 pages
...terra-firma of the known, in order to stretch outwards into the darkness and uncertainty of the unknown. 'New knowledge, when to any purpose, must come by...knowledge, in every matter which concerns thought.' ' All the men who are now called discoverers, in every matter ruled by thought, have been men versed... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1883 - 334 pages
...universe ? The rule is very simple, and is clearly enunciated by De Morgan. ' New knowledge,' he says, ' when to any purpose, must come by contemplation of...predecessors, and learned 'in what had been done before them.' (The italics are mine.) ' There is not one exception. ... If any one will undertake to show a person... | |
 | Alexander Macfarlane - 1916 - 162 pages
...others, especially as to the mode of doing it, a preliminary to inventing knowledge for himself. . . . New knowledge, when to any purpose, must come by contemplation...of their predecessors and learned in what had been before them. There is not one exception." I remember that just before the American Association met... | |
 | Alexander Macfarlane - 1916 - 164 pages
...others, especially as to the mode of doing it, a preliminary to inventing knowledge for himself. . . . New knowledge, when to any purpose, must come by contemplation...of their predecessors and learned in what had been before them. There is not one exception." I remember that just before the American Association met... | |
 | American Mathematical Society - 1916 - 580 pages
...field of scientific research is an indispensable, necessary condition for a contribution to the field. "All the men who are now called discoverers, in every...of their predecessors, and learned in what had been before them. There is not one exception. I do not say that every man has made direct acquaintance with... | |
 | Fernando Sanford - 1922 - 72 pages
...A man who belongs to this class must have both scientific insight and scholarship. De Morgan says: New knowledge, when to any purpose, must come by contemplation...of their predecessors, and learned in what had been before them. There is not one exception. The need of studying the methods of former scientists. —... | |
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