 Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness ; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from...  Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews - 239 페이지저자: Thomas Henry Huxley - 1872 - 378 페이지전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 페이지
...what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data" (p. 249). And so, while fully admitting the importance of mathematical studies for those who will make... | |
 | 1872 - 1120 페이지
...Huxley states in his "Lay Sermons," whilst writing on geological reform, that it is generally admitted that it is not absolutely certain, after all, whether...is undergoing acceleration, or the earth's rotation retardation. S. WADDINGTON. THE NAUTICAL MAGAZINE. NEW SERIES. NOVEMBER, 1872. OUR GREAT PORTS. SECOND... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1890 - 616 페이지
...quality of the grist, adding that, "as the grandest mill will not extract wheat-flour from peas-cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data."9 When we pass from the restricted domain of qnantitative results concerning geologic time to... | |
 | 1884 - 1442 페이지
...what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data."1 Not only in mathematical and physical science, but in all science, no amount of discussion... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1869 - 674 페이지
...as the grandest mill in the world wiU i tract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formula will no definite result out of loose data. In the present...is not absolutely certain, after all, whether the mean motion is undergoing acceleration, or the earth's rotati tardation*. And yet this is the key of... | |
 | 1869 - 692 페이지
...annually. He points out that although so much stress is laid by Sir W. Thomson on retardation, yet " it is not absolutely certain, after all, whether the...is undergoing acceleration, or the earth's rotation retardation ; and yet this is the key to the whole position." " If the rapidity of the earth's rotation... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1869 - 700 페이지
...what you put in ; and as the grandest mill m the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data." The most important papers contained in the 'Journal of Proceedings ' are Mr. TW Kingsmill's communication... | |
 | 1869 - 668 페이지
...what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data." According to Common Sense (which, though it is not obvious in the preceding extract, Professor Huxley... | |
 | Sir Edwin Ray Lankester - 1870 - 200 페이지
...what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get. a definite result out of loose data." — Anniversary Address to the Geological Society, 1869. In addition jto these classes of evidence,... | |
 | J. James R. Croes - 1875 - 84 페이지
...what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peas^ cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.' " Mr. Croes replied in these words : " I receive this medal at your hands, Mr. President, with feelings... | |
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