 | 1886 - 924 pages
...know more of science than the wisest of our philosophers do now. Boyle entitled one of his essays " Of Man's great Ignorance of the Uses of Natural Things...or that there is no one thing in Nature whereof the uses to human life are yet thoroughly understood"— a saying which is still as true now as when it... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1887 - 222 pages
...know more of science than the wisest of our philosophers do now. Boyle entitled one of his essays " Of Man's great Ignorance of the Uses of Natural Things...or that there is no one thing in Nature whereof the uses to human life are yet thoroughly understood"—a saying which is still as true now aa when it... | |
 | William Greenough Thayer Shedd - 1888 - 572 pages
...by this means learn humility." The natural philosopher Boyle entitles one of his essays thus : " Of man's great ignorance of the uses of natural things...or, that there is no one thing in nature whereof the uses to human life are yet thoroughly understood." Much advance has been made in the knowledge of physical... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1891 - 1138 pages
...dispelled and her modesty preserved. Boyle has entitled one of his essays thus remarkably — " of man's great ignorance of the uses of natural things...or that there is no one thing in nature whereof the uses to human life are yet thoroughly understood," yet the garrulous men whom Pindar compares to crows,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 228 pages
...know more of science than the wisest of our philosophers do now. Boyle entitled one of his essays " Of Man's great Ignorance of the Uses of Natural Things...or that there is no one thing in Nature whereof the uses to human life are yet thoroughly understood " — a saying which is still as true now as when... | |
 | 1892 - 858 pages
...knowledge of the objects to be converted into new utilities. In the seventeenth century the illustrious Boyle wrote an essay entitled, " Man's great ignorance...or, that there is no one thing in Nature whereof the uses to Human Life are yet thoroughly understood." This truth of the seventeenth century is equally... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - 358 pages
...endow those who love her. wisest of our philosophers do now. Boyle entitled one of his essays " Of Man's great Ignorance of the Uses of Natural Things;...or that there is no one thing in Nature whereof the uses to human life are yet thoroughly understood" — a saying which is still as true now as when it... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1895 - 930 pages
...Honorable Eobert Boyle, who lived early in the seventeenth century, entitled one of his essays, " Of Man's Great Ignorance of the Uses of Natural Things,...or that there is no one Thing in Nature whereof the Uses to Human life are yet thoroughly understood." The whole history of science, electricity especially,... | |
 | Frederick DeLand Leete - 1928 - 396 pages
...speak is not difficult to find. The title of Essay X, Vol. Ill, Works of Robert Boyle, quaintly is "Of Man's Great Ignorance of the Uses of Natural Things,...or That There Is no One Thing in Nature whereof the Uses to Human Life Are Yet Thoroughly Understood." John Tyndall thought that when science has finished... | |
 | 1886 - 758 pages
...address on the "Study of Science," Sir • lohn Lubbock quotes the title of an essay of Boyle's, "Of man's great ignorance of the uses of natural things...or that there is no one thing in Nature whereof the uses to human life are yet thoroughly understood," and he considers the saying as true now as when... | |
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Of Man's great Ignorance of the Uses of Natural Things ; or that there is no one thing in Nature whereof the uses to human life are yet thoroughly understood " — a saying which is still as true now as when it was written. 
