 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 354 pages
...up precisely the same idea. He ought to have been proud of the accuracy of his mental adjustments. Given certain factors, and a sound brain should always...brains and without heart, too stupid to make a blunder ; which turns out results like a corn-sheller, and never grows any wiser or better, though it grind... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 354 pages
...of a short poem by another New England authoress, which may be found in Mr. Griswold's collection. brain should always evolve the same fixed product...brains and without heart, too stupid to make a blunder; which turns out results like a cornsheller, and never grows any wiser or better, though it grind a... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1888 - 328 pages
...speaking for him, and meaning no doubt that he was proud, ' of the accuracy of his mental adjustments. Given certain factors, and a sound brain should always...evolve the same fixed product with the certainty of Babbagfs calculating machine.' Somewhat akin to the unconscious recurrence of mental processes after... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1889 - 230 pages
...up precisely the same idea. He ought to have been proud of the accuracy of his mental adjustments. Given certain factors, and a sound brain should always...brains and without heart, too stupid to make a blunder ; which turns out results like a coru-sheller, and never grows any wiser or better, though it grind... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 362 pages
...up precisely the same idea. He ought to have been proud of the accuracy of his mental adjustments. Given certain factors, and a sound brain should always...mathematician ! A Frankenstein-monster, a thing without trains and without heart, too stupid to make a blunder ; that turns out results like a corn-sheller,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 350 pages
...up precisely the same idea. He ought to have been proud of the accuracy of his mental adjustments. Given certain factors, and a sound brain should always...with the certainty of Babbage's calculating machine. ' It was an agreeable incident of two consecutive visits to Hartford, Conn., that I met there the late... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 382 pages
...a short poem by another New England authoress, which may be found in Mr. Griswold's collection. — What a satire, by the way, is that machine on the...brains and without heart, too stupid to make a blunder ; which turns out results like a cornsheller, and never grows any wiser or better, though it grind... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 348 pages
...up precisely the same idea. He ought to have been proud of the accuracy of his mental adjustments. Given certain factors, and a sound brain should always...with the certainty of Babbage's calculating machine. • It was an agreeable incident of two consecutive visits to Hartford, Conn., that I met there the... | |
 | 1892 - 406 pages
...up precisely the same idea. He ought to have been proud of the accuracy of his mental adjustments. Given certain factors, and a sound brain should always...with the certainty of Babbage's calculating machine. • It was an agreeable incident of two consecutive visits to Hartford, Conn., that I met there the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 374 pages
...up precisely the same idea. He ought to have been proud of the accuracy of his mental adjustments. Given certain factors, and a sound brain should always...with the certainty of Babbage's calculating machine. " It was an agreeable incident of two consecutive visits to Hartford, Conn., that I met there the late... | |
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... conversation with the Huma daily during that whole interval of years. On the contrary, he had never once thought of the odious fowl until the recurrence of precisely the same circumstances brought up precisely the same idea. He ought to have been... 
