 Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, — a sound and sufficient knowledge of mathematics, the great instrument of all exact inquiry, without which no man can ever make such advances...  Mechanics' Magazine - Page 4041857Full view - About this book
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...who may wish to enter, a ground-plan of its accesses, and put them in possession of the pass-word. Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges...and sufficient knowledge of mathematics, the great instru. ment of all exact enquiry, without which no man can ever make such advances in this or any... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 pages
...who may wish to enter, a ground-plan of its accesses, and put them in possession of the pass-word. Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges...is only to be gained by one means, — a sound and guffeient knowledge of mathematics, the great instrument of all exact enquiry, without which no man... | |
 | 1834 - 596 pages
...who may wish to enter, a ground-plan of its accesses, and put them in possession of the pass-word. Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained hy one means, — a sound and sufficient knowledge of mathematics, the great instrument of all exact... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1835 - 414 pages
...who may wish to enter, a ground-plan of its accesses, and put them in possession of the pass-word. Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges...sufficient knowledge of mathematics, the great instrument ufallexact inquiry, without which no man can ever make such advances in this or any other of the higher... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1894 - 604 pages
...without depending much on the authority of others. This can only be in the words of Sir John Herschel by a " sound and sufficient knowledge of mathematics,...instrument of all exact inquiry, without which no man can ever make such advances in any of the higher departments of science as can entitle him to form an independent... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1839 - 464 pages
...Philosophy, and it ought to be engraven on the mind of every aspirant after scientific knowledge. " Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges...instrument of all exact inquiry, without which no man can ever make such advances in this or any other of the higher departments of science, as can entitle him... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1840 - 376 pages
...Philosophy, and it ought to be engraven on the mind of every aspirant after scientific knowledge. " Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges...instrument of all exact inquiry, without which no man can ever make such advances in this or any other of the higher departments of science, as can entitle him... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1840 - 566 pages
...Philosophy, and it ought to he engraven on the mind of every aspirant after scientific knowledge. " Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges...votary, is only to be gained by one means, a sound ami efficient knowledge of Mathematics, the great instrument of all exact 'tqtitry, u-ithfut which... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1840 - 376 pages
...Philosophy, and it ought to be engraven on the mind of every aspirant after scientific knowledge. " Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges...of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, a stmnd and sufficient knowledge of Mathematics, the great instrument of all exact inquiry, without which... | |
 | 1840 - 430 pages
...accesses, and put them in possession of the pass-word. Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privi. leges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means —[mark, reader, the italics, for they are Sir John Herschel's own—his mode of giving additional... | |
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