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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... properties and actions of material substances , in- cluding those of the human brain , the actions of sensation , mind , will , and imagination , and also all those of the various forms of natural energy , and of the media through which ...
... properties and actions of material substances , in- cluding those of the human brain , the actions of sensation , mind , will , and imagination , and also all those of the various forms of natural energy , and of the media through which ...
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... ; geometrical conditions which are in- conceivable ; mechanical arrangements which are self- destructive , and physical properties and motions which are incompatible 16 GENERAL VIEW AND BASIS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH .
... ; geometrical conditions which are in- conceivable ; mechanical arrangements which are self- destructive , and physical properties and motions which are incompatible 16 GENERAL VIEW AND BASIS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH .
Side 17
... properties and motions which are incompatible . Many statements of fact also do not admit of degree ; for instance , a substance either exists or it does not . According to the principles of geometry , there can- not exist more than ...
... properties and motions which are incompatible . Many statements of fact also do not admit of degree ; for instance , a substance either exists or it does not . According to the principles of geometry , there can- not exist more than ...
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... properties and actions of matter and its forces are inti- mately related to the molecular structures and motions existing in bodies , and these structures and motions are so extremely minute , that our senses , even when 22 GENERAL VIEW ...
... properties and actions of matter and its forces are inti- mately related to the molecular structures and motions existing in bodies , and these structures and motions are so extremely minute , that our senses , even when 22 GENERAL VIEW ...
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... properties more conspicuous . Even at the present time all our methods and appliances are extremely crude , when com- pared with the minuteness and complexity of molecular phenomena to be discovered . The most important truths are ...
... properties more conspicuous . Even at the present time all our methods and appliances are extremely crude , when com- pared with the minuteness and complexity of molecular phenomena to be discovered . The most important truths are ...
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acid action alkali amount appear astronomical beliefs bodies cause chemical chemical affinity chemistry circumstances complete compounds conclusions consciousness covery degree detect discovered earth effect electric electric current elementary bodies employed enabled error essential evidence excite existence experiments extensive facts Faraday forces galvanometer gases heat heat-conductors hydrogen hypotheses ideas important impressions Inductive Sciences inference instance intellect invention kind Klaproth known labour large number laws Laws of Thought less Leyden jar light liquid logical magnetism matter means ment metals method mind motion nature Newton observation obtained original research oxygen particular perceive perception pheno phenomena phenomenon phlogiston physical possess principles probably produce properties proposition proved qualitative quantitative R. W. Dale reason requires Royal Society rubidium scientific investigator scientific research scientific truths senses similar specific gravity stances statement substances temperature thallium theory things thought tion tricity true usually various Whewell whilst
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Side 372 - 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 600 - Avogadro's law states that equal volumes of all gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules...
Side 293 - 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 (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Side 275 - 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 407 - The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of lightning, and probably also to those of terrestrial magnetism and the aurora.
Side 96 - 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 387 - 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 181 - ... 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.
Side 285 - Saturn, the spots in the sun, and its turning on its own axis", the inequalities and selenography of the moon, the several phases of Venus and Mercury, the improvement of telescopes, and grinding of glasses for that purpose, the weight of air, the possibility, or impossibility of vacuities, and nature's abhorrence thereof, the Torricellian experiment in quicksilver, the descent of heavy bodies, and the degrees of acceleration therein ; and divers other things of like nature.