 It looks as if the scientific, like other revolutions, meant to devour its own children ; as if the growth of science tended to overwhelm its votaries ; as if the man of science of the future were condemned to diminish into a narrower and narrower specialist,...  Western Druggist - Page 1701886Full view - About this book
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1886 - 604 pages
...all that was going on, without robbing himself of leisure for original work, and without demoralising his faculties by the accumulation of unassimilated...on. I am happy to say that I do not think any such catastrophe a necessary consequence of the growth of science ; but I do think it is a tendency to be... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1886 - 666 pages
...leisure for original work, and without demoralising his faculties by the accumulation of unassim lated information. It looks as if the scientific, like other...specialist, as time goes on. I am happy to say that I do n jl think any such catastrophe a necessary consequence of the groivth of science ; but I do think... | |
 | 1892 - 994 pages
...the case in my young days. A diligent reader might then keep fairly informed of all that was going on without demoralizing his faculties by the accumulation...on. " I am happy to say that I do not think any such catastrophe a necessary consequence of the growth of science ; but I do think it is a tendency to be... | |
 | Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science (U.S.) - 1890 - 698 pages
...the case in my young days. A diligent reader might then keep fairly informed of all that was going on without demoralizing his faculties by the accumulation...on. I am happy to say that I do not think any such catastrophe a necessary consequence of the growth of science, but I do think it a tendency to be feared... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1886 - 884 pages
...leisure for original work, and without demoralising his faculties by the accumulation of unassinvlnted information. It looks as if the scientific, like other...specialist, as time goes on. I am happy to say that I do n >l think any such catastrophe a necessary consequence of the growth of science ; but I do think it... | |
 | 1886 - 920 pages
...then keep fairly informed of all that was going on, without robbing himself of leisure for original work, and without demoralizing his faculties by the...overwhelm its votaries ; as if the man of science of the f uture were condemned to diminish into a narrower and narrower specialist, as time goes on. I am happy... | |
 | Albany Institute - 1887 - 354 pages
...have his mental faculties crushed beneath the multitude of voluminous monographs " * * * "It looks as if the growth of science tended to overwhelm its...narrower and narrower specialist as time goes on." He adds "I am happy to say that I do not think any such catastrophe a necessary consequence of the... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 614 pages
...the case in my young days. A diligent reader might then keep fairly informed of all that was going on without demoralizing his faculties by the accumulation...on. "I am happy to say that I do not think any such catastrophe a necessary consequence of the growth of science : but I do think it is a tendency to be... | |
 | 1892 - 930 pages
...reader might then keep fairly informed of all that was going on without demoralizing his facilities by the accumulation of unassimilated information....on. " I am happy to say that I do not think any such catastrophe a necessary consequence of the growth of science ; but I do think it is a tendency to be... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 604 pages
...informed of all that was going; on without demoralizing his faculties by the accumulation of nnassimilated information. It looks as If the scientific, like other...on. "I am happy to say that I do not think any such catastrophe a necessary consequence of the growth of science; but I do think it is a tendency to be... | |
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