 Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness ; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from...  Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews - Page 249by Thomas Henry Huxley - 1874 - 378 lehteFull view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 lehte
...what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data" (p. 249). And so, while fully admitting the importance of mathematical studies for those who will make... | |
 | 1872 - 1120 lehte
...Huxley states in his "Lay Sermons," whilst writing on geological reform, that it is generally admitted that it is not absolutely certain, after all, whether...is undergoing acceleration, or the earth's rotation retardation. S. WADDINGTON. THE NAUTICAL MAGAZINE. NEW SERIES. NOVEMBER, 1872. OUR GREAT PORTS. SECOND... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1890 - 616 lehte
...quality of the grist, adding that, "as the grandest mill will not extract wheat-flour from peas-cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data."9 When we pass from the restricted domain of qnantitative results concerning geologic time to... | |
 | 1884 - 1442 lehte
...what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data."1 Not only in mathematical and physical science, but in all science, no amount of discussion... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1869 - 674 lehte
...as the grandest mill in the world wiU i tract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formula will no definite result out of loose data. In the present...is not absolutely certain, after all, whether the mean motion is undergoing acceleration, or the earth's rotati tardation*. And yet this is the key of... | |
 | 1869 - 692 lehte
...annually. He points out that although so much stress is laid by Sir W. Thomson on retardation, yet " it is not absolutely certain, after all, whether the...is undergoing acceleration, or the earth's rotation retardation ; and yet this is the key to the whole position." " If the rapidity of the earth's rotation... | |
 | 1869 - 668 lehte
...what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data." According to Common Sense (which, though it is not obvious in the preceding extract, Professor Huxley... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1869 - 700 lehte
...what you put in ; and as the grandest mill m the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data." The most important papers contained in the 'Journal of Proceedings ' are Mr. TW Kingsmill's communication... | |
 | Sir Edwin Ray Lankester - 1870 - 200 lehte
...what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get. a definite result out of loose data." — Anniversary Address to the Geological Society, 1869. In addition jto these classes of evidence,... | |
 | J. James R. Croes - 1875 - 84 lehte
...what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peas^ cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.' " Mr. Croes replied in these words : " I receive this medal at your hands, Mr. President, with feelings... | |
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