 | Chemical Society (Great Britain) - 1911 - Страниц: 1324
...dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been the rewards of accurate measurement and patient, long-continued...in the minute sifting of numerical results." * The more subtle and complicated the conclusions to be drawn, the more exactly quantitative must be the... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - Страниц: 662
...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...his mind, and so the discovery was made. It was by a lonr train of mathematical calculation, founded on results accumulated through prodigious toil of practical... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - Страниц: 546
...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...his mind, and so the discovery was made. It was by a Ion; train of mathematical calculation, founded on results accumulated through prodigious toil of practical... | |
 | 1871 - Страниц: 1024
...simply choose some of these which have struck me as most notable. Accurate and minute measurement. discovery was made. It was by a long train of mathematical...through prodigious toil of practical astronomers, that Newton first demonstrated the forces urging the planets towards the Sun, determined the magnitudes... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - Страниц: 728
...than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science havo been but tho rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued...through prodigious toil of practical astronomers, that Newton first demonstrated the forces urging the planets towards the Sun, ^determined the magnitudes... | |
 | 1872 - Страниц: 342
...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...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results." Professor Tait, in his opening address to the Physical Section, exhorts mathematicians to be up and... | |
 | 1872 - Страниц: 318
...nearly all the grandest discoveries of science, including Newton's discovery of the law of gravitation, have been but the rewards of accurate measurement...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The origin of exact science in terrestrial magnetism is traceable to Gauss's invention of methods of finding... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1875 - Страниц: 710
...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...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.' (Address to the British Association, 1871.) In Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, at the present day,... | |
 | South Kensington Museum - 1876 - Страниц: 458
...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...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.... | |
 | 1876 - Страниц: 612
...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 labor in the minute sifting of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grand discovery is that... | |
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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... 
