 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...  Nature - Стр. 264редактор(ы): - 1871Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | George Iles - 1906 - Страниц: 594
...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 the theory of gravitation flashed upon his mind, and so the discovery was made.... | |
 | 1907 - Страниц: 452
...1871 made a statement from the Presidential Chair of the Association at Edinburgh as follows : — " Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than the looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been the reward... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1908 - Страниц: 1002
...in 1871 made a statement from the Presidential Chair of the Association at Edinburgh as follows : ' Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than the looking for something new. But nearly all the Brandest discoveries of science have been the reward... | |
 | George Hayward Joyce - 1908 - Страниц: 448
...precise quantitative determination is required. " Accurate and minute measurement," says Lord Kelvin, " seems to the non-scientific imagination, ' a less lofty and dignified work than the looking for ' something new. But nearly all the grandest dis' coveries of science have been the... | |
 | Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics - 1911 - Страниц: 394
...APRIL 28, 1910 WITH TWO PL50K PEDIGREES LONDON PUBLISHED BY DULAU AND CO, LTD. 37 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. — LORD KELVIN. Eugenic Laboratory Lecture Series III, Tlie Relative Strength of Nurture and Nature,... | |
 | John Horace Round - 1909 - Страниц: 614
...of the Royal Society i Lord Kelvin quoted these words from his own presidential address in 1871 :— Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient, long continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The same principle applies to the... | |
 | University College, London. Francis Galton Laboratory for Eugenics - 1909 - Страниц: 520
...MARCZEN-KABU8HIKI-KAI8HA Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lolty and dignified work than looking for something new....labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. — LORD KELVIN. Eugenics, Laboratory Lecture Series III : The Relative Strength of Nurture and Nature,... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - Страниц: 770
...statement which I took occasion to make in my Presidential Address to the British Association in 1871 :l "Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results." . . . After the address came the presentation of medals ; and this year the Darwin medal was awarded... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - Страниц: 766
...statement which I took occasion to make in my Presidential Address to the British Association in 1871 :l "Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results." . . . After the address came the presentation of medals ; and this year the Darwin medal was awarded... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1911 - Страниц: 274
...precise registration. Many advances, Lord Kelvin said, have owed their origin to protracted drudgery. "Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results." In illustration he instanced the discovery of the law of gravitation by Newton, Faraday's theory of... | |
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