The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1840 |
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... Observation and General- ization , 26 CHAPTER II . Strength of the Passion for Knowledge : -Pythago- ras ; Archimedes ; Leibnitz ; Galileo ; Heyne , CHAPTER III . 27 Humble Station no Obstacle : -Æsop ; Publius Sy- rus ; Terence ...
... Observation and General- ization , 26 CHAPTER II . Strength of the Passion for Knowledge : -Pythago- ras ; Archimedes ; Leibnitz ; Galileo ; Heyne , CHAPTER III . 27 Humble Station no Obstacle : -Æsop ; Publius Sy- rus ; Terence ...
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... observation and inquiry , without which , there can be no success . Sir ISAAC NEWTON , of all men that ever lived , is the one who has most extended the territory of human knowledge ; and he used to speak of himself as having been all ...
... observation and inquiry , without which , there can be no success . Sir ISAAC NEWTON , of all men that ever lived , is the one who has most extended the territory of human knowledge ; and he used to speak of himself as having been all ...
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... observation and experiment . On some occasions , he was wont to say , that , if there was any mental habit or endowment , in which he excelled the generality of men , it was that of patience in the examina- tion of the facts and ...
... observation and experiment . On some occasions , he was wont to say , that , if there was any mental habit or endowment , in which he excelled the generality of men , it was that of patience in the examina- tion of the facts and ...
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... observation and experiment of their due honors , by substituting speculation in their place . The ancients thought , erroneously , that discoveries were to be made by pursuing a train of conjecture , instead of ascertaining results ...
... observation and experiment of their due honors , by substituting speculation in their place . The ancients thought , erroneously , that discoveries were to be made by pursuing a train of conjecture , instead of ascertaining results ...
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... observed , thousands of times before . But yet nobody had ever viewed it with the philosophic attention with which it was on this occasion examined by Galileo . Or if , as possibly was the case , any one had been half unconsciously ...
... observed , thousands of times before . But yet nobody had ever viewed it with the philosophic attention with which it was on this occasion examined by Galileo . Or if , as possibly was the case , any one had been half unconsciously ...
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