 Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific 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...  The Dublin university magazine - Page 527by University magazine - 1877Full view - About this book
 | George Hayward Joyce - 1908 - 448 pages
...looking for ' something new. But nearly all the grandest dis' coveries of science have been the reward of accurate ' measurement, and patient, long-continued...labour in ' the minute sifting of numerical results." It is not, of course, the case that all laws are capable of quantitative expression. It is, for instance,... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1908 - 1002 pages
...looking for something new. But nearly all the Brandest discoveries of science have been the reward of accurate measurement and patient, long-continued...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.' Besides the instances quoted by Lord Kelvin in support of that statement, we have perhaps as remarkable... | |
 | Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics - 1911 - 394 pages
...DULAU AND CO, LTD. 37 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. — LORD KELVIN. Eugenic Laboratory Lecture Series III, Tlie Relative Strength of Nurture and Nature,... | |
 | University College, London. Francis Galton Laboratory for Eugenics - 1909 - 520 pages
...MARCZEN-KABU8HIKI-KAI8HA Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lolty and dignified work than looking for something new....labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. — LORD KELVIN. Eugenics, Laboratory Lecture Series III : The Relative Strength of Nurture and Nature,... | |
 | John Horace Round - 1909 - 614 pages
...his own presidential address in 1871 :— Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking...but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient, long continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The same principle applies to the... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - 848 pages
...Address to the British Association in 1871 :l "Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results." . . . After the address came the presentation of medals ; and this year the Darwin medal was awarded... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1911 - 276 pages
...owed their origin to protracted drudgery. "Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results." In illustration he instanced the discovery of the law of gravitation by Newton, Faraday's theory of... | |
 | 1915 - 558 pages
...minute measurement seems to the nonacientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than the looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been the reward of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labor in the minute sifting of numerical... | |
 | Sir Richard Gregory - 1916 - 378 pages
...the discrepancy noticed by Lord Rayleigh. Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. Yet nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement... | |
 | Marmaduke Charles Frederick Morris - 1922 - 376 pages
...1871, gave utterance to these words : ' Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.' I always looked forward to my annual visits to South Kilvington School with great pleasure, for it... | |
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