 | Michael Faraday - 1859 - 522 lehte
...verification of their own views. The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories wnich have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator...And is a man so occupied to be taken from his search alter truth in the path he. hopes may lead to its attainment, and occupied in vain upon nothing but... | |
 | EDWARDL.YOUMANS,M.D. - 1863 - 468 lehte
...Mars before he established the true doctrine that it moves in an ellipse ; and Dr. FABADAY remarks : * The world little knows how many of the thoughts and...have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own adverse criticism.' 25. Theory means literally a view. It is an accepted hypothesis ; an explanation... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1866 - 480 lehte
...Mars before he established the true doctrine that it moves in an ellipse; and Dr. FABADAY remarks: ' The world little knows how many of the thoughts and...have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own adverse criticism.' 25. Theory means literally a view. It is an accepted hypothesis ; an explanation... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1913 - 788 lehte
...happens, he is met by difficulties well-nigh insuperable. In a well-known passage Faraday says : — " The world little knows how many of the thoughts and...the wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realised." But a hypothesis to be useful, to be admitted as a candidate for rank as a scientific theory,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1913 - 810 lehte
...happens, he is met by difficulties well-nigh insuperable. In a well-known passage Faraday says : — " The world little knows how many of the thoughts and...the wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realised." But a hypothesis to be useful, to be admitted as a candidate for rank as a scientific theory,... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1870 - 376 lehte
...discovered or established truths of greater certainty and importance. Faraday has himself said that — " The world little knows how many of the thoughts and...the preliminary conclusions have been realized*." The student is strongly recommended to read Sir J. Herschel's Preliminary Discourse on the Study of... | |
 | Nathan Smith Davis - 1870 - 804 lehte
...and is a law unto itself. The celebrated chemist, Faraday, has said: "the world little knows how many thoughts and theories, which have passed through the...have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own adverse criticism." All theories and generalizations are of use in scientific investigations, and have,... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1874 - 498 lehte
...Mars before he established the true doctrine that it moves in an ellipse ; and Dr. FARADAY remarks : ' The world little knows how many of the thoughts and...have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own adverse criticism.' 25. Theory means literally a view. It is an accepted hypothesis ; an explanation... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1874 - 984 lehte
...have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in silence and secresy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination...wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized.' Nevertheless, in Faraday's researches published either in the ' Philosophical Transactions ' or in... | |
 | 1875 - 820 lehte
...speculations, is illustrated in the experience of our leading investigators. " As Faraday himself said, ' The world little knows how many of the thoughts and...wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized." * Experiments at St. Helena showed that there was a tide in the atmosphere affecting the barometer,... | |
| |
The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination; that in the most successful instances... 
