 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...  Papers on Radiation, Chemistry: 1901-1912 - Page 200by Smithsonian Institution - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Chemical Society (Great Britain) - 1911 - 1324 pages
...definiteness of the data on which they are based. * Plato, Pkilelfus (trans. Jowett), 1876, Vol. IV., p. 104. Lord Kelvin said : " Accurate and minute measurement...of accurate measurement and patient, long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results." * The more subtle and complicated the conclusions... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 662 pages
...in several branches of science, I simply choose some of those which have struck me as most notable. Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 546 pages
...in several branches of science, I simply choose some of those which have struck me as most notable. Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - 716 pages
...an object to which the powerful action of the British Association would bo thoroughly appropriate. Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...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... | |
 | 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...all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1875 - 710 pages
...feature constituting an exact science. ' Accurate and minute measurement,' says Sir William Thomson, ' seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty...all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of... | |
 | South Kensington museum (Londres / 1852-1899). - 1876 - 450 pages
...inaugural address, delivered in 1871 to the members of the British Association, in which he says, " Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient longcontinued labour in the minute sifting of numerical... | |
 | 1876 - 612 pages
...of the Conference* In connection with the Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus at South Kensington. " Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labor in the minute sifting of numerical... | |
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