The Art of Scientific Discovery: Or, The General Conditions and Methods of Research in Physics and ChemistryLongmans, Green, and Company, 1878 - 648 sider |
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Side vii
... limited and precarious , I share his hope that aids may be pointed out which are neither worthless nor uninstructive.2 I have no wish even to suggest the idea of reducing all intellects to a level , nor to make success in research a 1 ...
... limited and precarious , I share his hope that aids may be pointed out which are neither worthless nor uninstructive.2 I have no wish even to suggest the idea of reducing all intellects to a level , nor to make success in research a 1 ...
Side 15
... limited . At the present time we are only acquainted with less than a dozen of the former and six dozen of the latter . Elementary substances also do not unite together in every proportion by weight , but only in certain definite ones ...
... limited . At the present time we are only acquainted with less than a dozen of the former and six dozen of the latter . Elementary substances also do not unite together in every proportion by weight , but only in certain definite ones ...
Side 17
... limited power of our faculties and means of detection and observation , and our present incapability to appreciate absolute accuracy . As the analogies and conclusions we draw from research and experience are sometimes erroneous , we ...
... limited power of our faculties and means of detection and observation , and our present incapability to appreciate absolute accuracy . As the analogies and conclusions we draw from research and experience are sometimes erroneous , we ...
Side 19
... limited knowledge and instruction , the human mind can think erroneously , and often does so , but the tendency to think falsely in natural subjects diminishes as education ad- vances . Erroneous propositions which were formerly ...
... limited knowledge and instruction , the human mind can think erroneously , and often does so , but the tendency to think falsely in natural subjects diminishes as education ad- vances . Erroneous propositions which were formerly ...
Side 20
... limited powers , is probably as great as it ever was . Some of the questions still propounded are quite as impenetrable as those discussed by the schoolmen in former times , when they seriously debated whether , ' when angels move from ...
... limited powers , is probably as great as it ever was . Some of the questions still propounded are quite as impenetrable as those discussed by the schoolmen in former times , when they seriously debated whether , ' when angels move from ...
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Side 273 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Side 370 - One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confined to single parts.
Side 598 - Avogadro's law states that equal volumes of all gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules...
Side 98 - So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Side 94 - I think it may not be amiss to take notice, that however faith be opposed to reason, faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind : which if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to any thing but upon good reason ; and so cannot be opposite to it. He that believes, without having any reason for believing, may be in love with his own fancies; but neither seeks truth as he ought, nor pays the obedience due to his Maker...
Side 291 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth...
Side 175 - The second supposition is this, that all bodies whatsoever that are put into a direct and simple motion, will so continue to move forward in a straight line till they are, by some other effectual powers, deflected, and sent into a motion describing a circle, ellipsis, or some other more compounded curve line. The third supposition is, that these attractive powers are so much the more powerful in operating by how much the nearer the body wrought upon is to their own centres.
Side 283 - Our business was (precluding matters of theology and state affairs) to discourse and consider of philosophical enquiries, and such as related thereunto: — as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magneticks, Chymicks, Mechanicks, and Natural Experiments; with the state of these studies and their cultivation at home and abroad.
Side 385 - 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 labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.
Side 179 - ... by art, seems to be done with equal efficacy, though more slowly, by nature, in the formation of varieties of mankind, fitted for the country which they inhabit. Of the accidental varieties of man, which would occur among the first few and scattered inhabitants of the middle regions of Africa, some one would be better fitted than the others to bear the diseases of the country.