 | John Tyndall - Science - 1894 - 470 pages
...applied to the solution of the problem. It entirely transcends us. The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence. The phenomena of matter and force lie within our intellectual range,... | |
 | Chemistry - 1883 - 710 pages
...is in our day likely to solve, the problem of the universe, I must shake my head in doubt. Behind, above, and around us, the real mystery of the universe...far as we are concerned, is incapable of solution. The problem of the connection of the body and the soul is as insoluble in its modern form as it was... | |
 | George A. Richardson - Social history - 1896 - 472 pages
...justice to all its members. CHAPTER VII. MENTAL AND MORAL TREADMILLS. " The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence. The phenomena of matter and force lie within his intellectual range,... | |
 | John Tyndall - Science - 1897 - 528 pages
...applied to the solution of the problem. It entirely transcends us. The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence. The phenomena of matter and force lie within our intellectual range,... | |
 | Edgar Gardner Murphy - Sermons, American - 1897 - 278 pages
...be applied to the solution of the problem. It entirely transcends us. The mind of man maybe compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence. The phenomena of matter and force lie within our intellectual range,... | |
 | John Tyndall - Science - 1897 - 472 pages
...applied to the solution of the problem. It entirely transcends us. The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence. The phenomena of matter and force lie within our intellectual range,... | |
 | Jasper Newton Field - Sects - 1904 - 242 pages
...and lost in darkness and despair. Prof. Tyndall has fittingly said : "The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which, in both directions, we have an infinitude of silence." Those who seek to transcend the conditions under which knowledge... | |
 | James George Roche Forlong - Religion - 1906 - 648 pages
...applied to the solution of the problem. It entirely transcends us. The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which, in both directions, is an infinitude of silence. The phenomena of matter and force lie within our intellectual range ;... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1879 - 820 pages
...to solve, ' the problem of the universe, ' I must shake my head in doubt. I compare the mind of man to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes,...far as we are concerned, is incapable of solution. While refreshing my mind on these old themes I am struck by the poverty of my own thought ; appearing... | |
 | Andrew Allan - Bible and science - 1907 - 252 pages
...cannot be so sure that they exist as we experience them within us. Tyndall compares the ' mind of man to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes...which in both directions exists infinite silence.' ' Possibly no two minds possess the same range of notes, but probably there are certain notes common... | |
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The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence. 
