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" The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination ; that in the most successful instances... "
Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics - Page 480
by Michael Faraday - 1859 - 496 pages
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How to Study in College

Leal Aubrey Headley - 1926 - 448 pages
...Faraday 2 bear striking testimony: "The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator...and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examinations; that in the most successful instances not a tenth of the suggestions, the hopes, the...
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How to Study in College

Leal Aubrey Headley - 1926 - 450 pages
...investigator have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examinations; that in the most successful instances not a tenth...wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized." Criticism is popularly supposed to be natural and easy. It is assumed that the only genuinely intellectual...
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study ..., Volume 26

Aristotelian Society (Great Britain) - 1926 - 352 pages
...knows," Faraday said, " how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of the scientific investigator have been crushed in silence...his own severe criticism and adverse examination." And, finally, it is possible that it is the existence, side by side, of alternative theory-systems...
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Social Progress: Studies in the Dynamics of Change

Ulysses Grant Weatherly - 1926 - 416 pages
...Jevons quotes Faraday as saying: "The world little knowns'how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator have been crushed to silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination ; that in the most successful...
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Man and Civilization: An Inquiry Into the Bases of Contemporary Life

John Storck - 1927 - 464 pages
...activity of the scientist he said: 14 The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator,...wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized. From the standpoint of the functions they perform in , scientific investigation, hypotheses may be...
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The New World: College Readings in English

Harold Lawton Bruce, Guy Montgomery - 1927 - 600 pages
...edition, p. 6). As Faraday said: "The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator...wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized." As a complementary statement we give another quotation from the same great authority: '' The philosopher...
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The Dilemma of American Music, and Other Essays, Volume 1

Daniel Gregory Mason - 1928 - 330 pages
...well-founded." "The world little knows," remarks Faraday, "how many of the thoughts and theories that have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator...the wishes, the preliminary conclusions, have been realised." In a process so arduous as creativeness is thus shown to be, it is evident enough that the...
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Educational Psychology

Daniel Starch - 1927 - 588 pages
...of discovery." And Faraday said: "The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator...that in the most successful instances not a tenth 446 EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY of the suggestions, the hopes, the wishes, the preliminary conclusions have...
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The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

1875 - 528 pages
...Jevons points out, from the examples of Kepler and Faraday, that, to use the words of the latter, " in the most successful instances not a tenth of the...wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized." He then considers the method pursued by Newton in the ' Prineipia' and the ' Optics' as a type of the...
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Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science

Dean Keith Simonton - 1988 - 242 pages
...illustrious physicist and chemist, admitted that the world little knows how many thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator...and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examinations; that in the most successful instances not a tenth of the suggestions, the hopes, the...
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