 | Charles William Siemens - 1889 - 532 pages
...inaugural address delivered in 1871 to the members of the British Association, in which he says — "Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific...of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grand discovery is that the theory of gravitation flashed upon his mind, and so the discovery was made.... | |
 | 1894 - 458 pages
...statement which I took occasion to make in my presidential address to the British Association in 1871, § "Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified woik than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but... | |
 | John Horace Round - 1895 - 614 pages
...of the Royal Society, Lord Kelvin quoted these words from his own presidential address in 1871 : — Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The same principle applies to the study of institutional history. Whether we are dealing with military... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1895 - 590 pages
...to the British Association in 1871,§ " Accurate and minute measurement seems to the noiiecientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results." The investigation is now being carried on vigorously, and has already * Scott, "On the Composition of Water... | |
 | John Horace Round - 1895 - 616 pages
...of the Royal Society, Lord Kelvin quoted these words from his own presidential address in 1871 : — Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and pttient, longcontinued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The same principle applies... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1895 - 1196 pages
...recent advances in many lines of research. Lord Kelvin said in his Presidential Address at Edinburgh, ' Nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have...measurement and patient, long-continued labour in the sifting of numerical results.' The discovery of argon, for which Lord Rayleigh and Professor Ramsay... | |
 | 1895 - 490 pages
...were inimitable by Continental workmen. Lord Kelvin said in his Presidential Address at Edinburgh, " Nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have...measurement and patient, long-continued labour in the sifting of numerical results." The discovery of argon, for which Lord Rayleigh and Professor Ramsay... | |
 | 1895 - 454 pages
...were inimitable by Continental workmen. Lord Kelvin said in his Presidential Address at Edinburgh, " Nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have...measurement and patient, long-continued labour in the sifting of numerical results." The discovery of argon, for which Lord Rayeigh and Professor Ramsay... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1895 - 1164 pages
...recent advances in many lines of research. Lord Kelvin said in his Presidential Address at Edinburgh, ' Nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have...measurement and patient, long-continued labour in the sifting of numerical results.' The discovery of argon, for which Lord Rayleigh and Professor Ramsay... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1895 - 1006 pages
...recent advances in many lines of research. Lord Kevlin said, in his Presidential Address at Edinburgh, "Nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have...of accurate measurement and patient, long-continued labor in the sifting of numerical results." The discovery of argon, for which Lord Rayleigh and Prof.... | |
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Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific 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... 
