 Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific 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...  Inventors at Work: With Chapters on Discovery - Page 205by George Iles - 1906 - 503 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1877 - 828 pages
..." eeems to the nonDUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. If" PHOTOGRAPHED BY JOHN FERGUS LARGS . 1 scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking...accurate measurement, and patient, long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grandest discovery... | |
 | 1877 - 844 pages
...PHOTOCRAPHtD BY JOHN FERGUS. LARCS . 1877.] Our Portrait Gallery. 561 scientific imagination a lees lofty and dignified work than looking for something...accurate measurement, and patient, long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grandest discovery... | |
 | George Gore - 1878 - 694 pages
...1871, to the members of the British Association, says, ' Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified...of accurate measurement and patient, long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grand discovery is,... | |
 | George Gore - 1878 - 696 pages
...1871, to the members of the British Association, says, ' Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified...of accurate measurement and patient, long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grand discovery is,... | |
 | George Gore - 1878 - 688 pages
...1871, to the members of the British Association, says, ' Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified...discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate cc 2 measurement and patient, long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The... | |
 | 1888 - 492 pages
...to flight by Sir William Thomson in an address before the British Association, in which he said: " Nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of patient, long-continued labor in the minute sifting of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1884 - 652 pages
...William Thompson has said, " Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination as a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new;" but he adds, "Nearlyall the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of measurement and... | |
 | 1884 - 660 pages
...William Thompson has said, " Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination as a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new;" but he adds, "Nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of measurement and... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1884 - 668 pages
...William Thompson has said, " Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination as a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new; " but he adds, " Nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of measurement... | |
 | Charles William Siemens - 1889 - 532 pages
...members of the British Association, in which he says — "Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified...of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grand discovery is... | |
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