 The ether is not a fantastic creation of the speculative philosopher; it is as essential to us as the air we breathe.... The study of this all-pervading substance is perhaps the most fascinating and important duty of the physicist.  The Observatory - Page 3461909Full view - About this book
 | 1913 - 878 pages
...of science, ana quotes what Sir JJ Thomson, one of the highest authorities, has said: — "The Ether Is not a fantastic creation of the speculative philosopher; It is as essential to us as the air we breathe. The study of this all-pervading substance is perhaps the most fascinating and important duty of the... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1914 - 926 pages
...largest and most fundamental, ingredient in the material cosmos. As Sir JJ Thomson said at Winnipeg — "The aether is not a fantastic creation of the speculative...; it is as essential to us as the air we breathe. . . . The study of this all-pervading substance is perhaps the most fascinating and important duty... | |
 | American Society for Psychical Research - 1913 - 800 pages
...most fundamental ingredient in the material cosmos. As Sir JJ Thomson said at Winnipeg— " The ether is not a fantastic creation of the speculative philosopher;...it is as essential to us as the air we breathe.... The study of this all-pervading substance is perhaps the most fascinating and important duty of the... | |
 | Lilian Whiting - 1910 - 358 pages
...the changes in progress incited by late scientific research. Dr. Thompson further said : " The ether is not a fantastic creation of the speculative philosopher;...is as essential to us as the air we breathe. For we on this earth are not living on our own resources ; we are dependent from minute to minute on what... | |
 | 1913 - 454 pages
...most fundamental ingredient in the material cosmos. As Sir JJ Thomson said at Winnipeg — "The ether is not a fantastic creation of the speculative philosopher...; it is as essential to us as the air we breathe. . • . The study of this all-pervading substance is perhaps the most fascinating and important duty... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1914 - 1032 pages
...fundamental ingredient in the material cosmos. As Sir JJ Thomson aaid at Winnipeg: — ' The ether is not a fantastic creation of the speculative philosopher; it is as essential to us as the air we breathe. . . . The study of this all-pervading substance is perhaps the most fascinating and important duty... | |
 | Sir Oliver Lodge - 1914 - 158 pages
...and most fundamental ingredient in the material cosmos. As Sir JJ Thomson said at Winnipeg: The ether is not a fantastic creation of the speculative philosopher; it is as essential to us as the air we breathe. . . . The study of this all-pervading substance is perhaps the most fascinating and important duty... | |
 | Henry Holt - 1915 - 496 pages
...and Sir Oliver Lodge confirm this opinion, let me quote two statements of Sir JJ Thomson: "The ether is not a fantastic creation of the speculative philosopher; it is as essential to us as the air we breathe. . . . The study of this all pervading substance is perhaps the most fascinating and important duty... | |
 | Louis Trenchard More - 1915 - 290 pages
...and Sir Oliver Lodge confirm this opinion, let me quote two statements of Sir JJ Thomson: " The ether is not a fantastic creation of the speculative philosopher; it is as essential to us as the air we breathe. . . . The study of this all-pervading substance is perhaps the -most fascinating and important duty... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1920 - 372 pages
...perfect freedom, without any friction or viscosity " (1913, p. 33). \ The ether, says Sir JJ Thomson, " is not a fantastic creation of the speculative philosopher; it is as essential to us as the air we breathe. . . . The study of this allpervading substance is perhaps the most fascinating and important duty of... | |
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