 ... says the same scientist; and further quotes the noble words of Faraday —"occasionally, and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful and a great fatigue to suspend a conclusion, but...  The Culture Demanded by Modern Life; - Page 213by Edward Livingston Youmans - 1867 - 492 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Michael Faraday - 1859 - 522 lehte
...it; combining this curious application of the wager, as a meter, with the necessity that ever exists of drawing conclusions, not absolute but proportionate...for the man who rests in his position is not so far from right as he who, proceeding in a wrong direction, is ever increasing his distance. In the year... | |
 | Modern culture - 1867 - 458 lehte
...I rather impertinently quoted * Experimental Researches in Electricity, paragraphs 2,657 — 2,681. Butler's well-known lines* about the kind of persons...we ought to be cautious: we shall eventually find onr advantage, for the man who rests in his position is not so far from right as he who, proceeding... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 lehte
...with certainty, especially when it encounters a contrary conclusion drawn by another from like data. Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment...for the man who rests in his position is not so far from right as he who, proceeding in a wrong direction, is ever increasing his distance. The education... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 lehte
...with certainty, especially when it encounters a contrary conclusion drawn by another from like data. Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment...conclusion, but as we are not infallible, so we ought to be cautions ; we shall eventually find our advantage, for the man who rests in his position is not so... | |
 | John Hall Gladstone - 1872 - 244 lehte
...is, one proportionate to the evidence, ranging through all degrees of probability—while he adds: " Frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation." " The education which I advocate," says Faraday, " will require patience and labour of thougJit in... | |
 | John Hall Gladstone - 1872 - 246 lehte
...is, one proportionate to the evidence, ranging through all degrees of probability — while he. adds: "Frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation." " The education which I advocate," says Faraday, " will require patience and labour of thought in every... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1874 - 524 lehte
...which is ready with a positive decision. Faraday has himself said, in a very interesting lecture 1 , ' Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment...for the man who rests in his position is not so far from right as he who, proceeding in a wrong direction, is ever increasing his distance.' Arago presented... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1874 - 984 lehte
...which is ready with a positive decision. Faraday has himself said, in a very interesting lecture', ' Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment...shall eventually find our advantage, for the man who > Printed in 'Modern Culture,' edited by Youmans, p. 219. rests in his position is not so far from... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1874 - 978 lehte
...which is ready with a positive decision. Faraday has himself said, in a very interesting lecture1, ' Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment...distasteful, and great fatigue, to suspend a conclusion ; hut as we are not infallible, so we ought to be cautious ; we shall eventually find our advantage,... | |
 | 1880 - 800 lehte
...that his pause has saved him from a false conclusion. "It may be," he himself says, " very distasteful to suspend a conclusion, but, as we are not infallible,...for the man who rests in his position is not so far from right as he who, proceeding in a wrong direction, is ever increasing his distance." " As we are... | |
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