 | William Thomas Stead - 1903 - 722 pages
...Society, Sir William Crookes said : — To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gales of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or...investigator to do but to go straight on, " to explore up and clown, inch by inch, with the taper his reason " ; to follow she light wherever it may lead, even should... | |
 | 1899 - 848 pages
...are identified with modern science. "To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gate of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or...adverse criticism, is to bring reproach on science," is the sentence with which Sir William opened the address that has excited so much attention. Telepathy... | |
 | James Hervey Hyslop - 1906 - 450 pages
...exercised by intelligence differing from the ordinary intelligence common to mortals. To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates...explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper of reason ; to follow the light wherever it may lead, even should it at times resemble a will-o'-the-wisp.'... | |
 | Walter De Voe - 1906 - 268 pages
...exercised by intelligence differing from the ordinary intelligence common to mortals. To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates...science. There is nothing for the investigator to do but go straight on, 'to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper of reason : to follow the light... | |
 | American Society for Psychical Research - 1907 - 794 pages
...exercised by intelligence differing from the ordinary intelligence common to mortals. To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates...explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper of his reason: to follow the light wherever it may lead, even should it at times resemble a will-'o-wisp."... | |
 | Fremont Rider - 1909 - 460 pages
...exercised by intelligence differing from the ordinary intelligence common to mortals. To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates...explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper of his reason; to follow the light wherever it may lead, even should it at times resemble a will-o'-the-wisp.'... | |
 | Institute of Metals - 1919 - 582 pages
...could be was characteristic of the man, and the key to his success. As he has said : " To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates...difficulty or adverse criticism, is to bring reproach upon science." Thallium led to another triumph in an unexpected manner. While attempting to ascertain... | |
 | Fremont Rider - 1909 - 506 pages
...permeated with fraud, 14 — Has science been neglecting a rich field of inquiry? 19 — "To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge is to bring reproach on science . . ." — Sir William Crookes, 22. CHAP. II. THE PHYSICAL PHENOMENA... | |
 | Isaac Winter Heysinger - 1910 - 480 pages
...Bristol, 7th September 1898, with the following remarkable and prophetic words : — " To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates...There is nothing for the investigator to do but to keep straight on, ' to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper of his reason ' ; to follow... | |
 | Ramananda Chatterjee - 1911 - 778 pages
...— an act of cowardice I feel no temptation to commit. To *top short in any research that bids lair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear...straight on, 'to explore up and down, inch by inch, * As descent from above or an upward movement would be unintelligible to beings acquainted only with... | |
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To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is to bring reproach on science. 
