 | Michael Faraday - Chemistry - 1859 - 522 pages
...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...wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized. And is a man so occupied to be taken from his search alter truth in the path he. hopes may lead to... | |
 | EDWARDL.YOUMANS,M.D. - 1863 - 468 pages
...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 - Chemistry - 1866 - 480 pages
...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... | |
 | Modern culture - Culture - 1867 - 458 pages
...have enough to do with themselves, in the examination, correction, or verification of their own views. The world little knows how many of the thoughts and...wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized. And is a man so occupied to be taken from his search after truth in the path he hopes may lead to its... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - History - 1867 - 490 pages
...have enough to do with themselves, in the examination, correction, or verification of their own views. The world little knows how many of the thoughts and...examination ; that in the most successful instances not a ten^h of the suggestions, the hopes, the wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized. And... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1913 - 788 pages
...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 - Electronic journals - 1913 - 810 pages
...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 - Logic - 1870 - 376 pages
...discovered or established truths of greater certainty and importance. Faraday has himself said that — " The world little knows how many of the thoughts and...preliminary conclusions have been realized*." The student is strongly recommended to read Sir J. Herschel's Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy... | |
 | Nathan Smith Davis - Medicine - 1870 - 804 pages
...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 - Chemistry - 1874 - 498 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
