The Art of Scientific Discovery: Or, The General Conditions and Methods of Research in Physics and ChemistryLongmans, Green, and Company, 1878 - 648 páginas |
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... universal ether , which pervades all bodies and all space ; and the only ultimate limits of scientific research are those of time , space , matter , and force . Science is the interpretation of nature , and man is the interpreter ...
... universal ether , which pervades all bodies and all space ; and the only ultimate limits of scientific research are those of time , space , matter , and force . Science is the interpretation of nature , and man is the interpreter ...
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... universal space on the other ? Who can even imagine the distance of the Celestial nebulæ , the velocity of gravity or of light , or even the number of molecules , which has been calculated to be about 100 million million million ...
... universal space on the other ? Who can even imagine the distance of the Celestial nebulæ , the velocity of gravity or of light , or even the number of molecules , which has been calculated to be about 100 million million million ...
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... universal distribution of matter ; the phenomena of nature show no definite limits to the quantity of energy ; and the microscope and the phenomena of physics and chemistry reveal to us an almost infinite degree of minuteness in the ...
... universal distribution of matter ; the phenomena of nature show no definite limits to the quantity of energy ; and the microscope and the phenomena of physics and chemistry reveal to us an almost infinite degree of minuteness in the ...
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... universal ether , & c . In proportion as ideas fail to produce a high degree of mental change , so are they abstruse and difficult to realise completely ; abstruse ideas are therefore most inadequate . Whilst the human mind appears ...
... universal ether , & c . In proportion as ideas fail to produce a high degree of mental change , so are they abstruse and difficult to realise completely ; abstruse ideas are therefore most inadequate . Whilst the human mind appears ...
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... universal . ' ' That only remains readily in the memory which is conceived according to a natural order . If the memory becomes enfeebled , it is with regard to proper names that this enfeeblement is first apparent . ' 2 Gratiolet ...
... universal . ' ' That only remains readily in the memory which is conceived according to a natural order . If the memory becomes enfeebled , it is with regard to proper names that this enfeeblement is first apparent . ' 2 Gratiolet ...
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Página 273 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 370 - One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confined to single parts.
Página 598 - Avogadro's law states that equal volumes of all gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules...
Página 98 - So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Página 94 - I think it may not be amiss to take notice, that however faith be opposed to reason, faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind : which if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to any thing but upon good reason ; and so cannot be opposite to it. He that believes, without having any reason for believing, may be in love with his own fancies; but neither seeks truth as he ought, nor pays the obedience due to his Maker...
Página 291 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth...
Página 175 - The second supposition is this, that all bodies whatsoever that are put into a direct and simple motion, will so continue to move forward in a straight line till they are, by some other effectual powers, deflected, and sent into a motion describing a circle, ellipsis, or some other more compounded curve line. The third supposition is, that these attractive powers are so much the more powerful in operating by how much the nearer the body wrought upon is to their own centres.
Página 283 - Our business was (precluding matters of theology and state affairs) to discourse and consider of philosophical enquiries, and such as related thereunto: — as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magneticks, Chymicks, Mechanicks, and Natural Experiments; with the state of these studies and their cultivation at home and abroad.
Página 385 - Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific 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 labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.
Página 179 - ... by art, seems to be done with equal efficacy, though more slowly, by nature, in the formation of varieties of mankind, fitted for the country which they inhabit. Of the accidental varieties of man, which would occur among the first few and scattered inhabitants of the middle regions of Africa, some one would be better fitted than the others to bear the diseases of the country.