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" In other instances, he was influenced by theoretical views of so flimsy a texture that they were dispersed by the first appeal to experiment. "These mistakes," he observes, "it was in my power to have concealed; but I was determined to show how little... "
Report of the Annual Meeting - Page 64
by British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1833
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The Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1801-11, Volume 7

1812 - 656 pages
...speaks in the 323d page of the came volume. " I was determined to shew how little mystery there really is in the business of experimental philosophy, and with how little sagacity or design discoveries (which some are pleased to coa'.'idc•; as great and wonderful things) have...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 13

1832 - 410 pages
...reflected upon them from the improved condition of • Series i. vol. ii p. 175. f Series ii. vol. ip 26. science. But, in other cases, his analogies were fanciful...pleased to consider great and wonderful, have been made.1" Candid acknowledgments of this kind were, however, turned against him by persons envious of...
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The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas

Charles Coulston Gillispie - 1960 - 596 pages
...entirely in my power to have concealed them. But I was determined to shew how little mystery there really is in the business of experimental philosophy, and with how little sagacity, or even design, discoveries (which some persons are pleased to consider as great and wonderful things)...
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Antoine Lavoisier: Science, Administration and Revolution

Arthur Donovan - 1996 - 372 pages
...entirely in my power to have concealed them. But I was determined to shew how little mystery there really is in the business of experimental philosophy, and with how little sagacity, or even design, discoveries (which some persons are pleased to consider as great and wonderful things)...
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Physics, the Human Adventure: From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond

Gerald James Holton, Stephen G. Brush - 2001 - 604 pages
...negative. Even the eighteenth-century chemist Joseph Priestley warned "... how little mystery there really is in the business of experimental philosophy, and with how little sagacity, or even design, discoveries (which some persons are pleased to consider as great and wonderful things)...
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