 | Chemical Society (Great Britain) - 1911 - 1324 sider
...which they are based. * Plato, Pkilelfus (trans. Jowett), 1876, Vol. IV., p. 104. Lord Kelvin said : " Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...all the grandest discoveries of science have been the rewards of accurate measurement and patient, long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 662 sider
...in several branches of science, I simply choose some of those which have struck me as most notable. Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grandest discovery is that the theory of gravitation flashed into his mind, and so the discovery was... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 546 sider
...in several branches of science, I simply choose some of those which have struck me as most notable. Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grandest discovery is that the theory of gravitation flashed into his mind, and so the discovery was... | |
 | 1872 - 342 sider
...address to the British Association, says, " accurate and minute measurement seems to the more scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results." Professor Tait, in his opening address to the Physical Section, exhorts mathematicians to be up and... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - 716 sider
...an object to which the powerful action of the British Association would bo thoroughly appropriate. Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly ¡ill the grandest discoveries erf science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - 728 sider
...choose some of those which have struck mo as most notable. Accurate and minute measurement seems to tho non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified...But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science havo been but tho rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting... | |
 | 1872 - 318 sider
...in promoting accurate measurement in various subjects. To the non-scientific imagination this seems a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something...But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science, including Newton's discovery of the law of gravitation, have been but the rewards of accurate measurement... | |
 | 1874 - 352 sider
...it is necessary that mirnerical results should be sought for and obtained. •' Nearly all the grand discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results," is a principle enunciated in the... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1875 - 710 sider
...feature constituting an exact science. ' Accurate and minute measurement,' says Sir William Thomson, ' seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.' (Address to the British Association, 1871.) In Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, at the present day,... | |
 | 1876 - 612 sider
...of the Conference* In connection with the Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus at South Kensington. " Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...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... 
