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" One word characterises the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perseveringly during fifty-five years; that word is failure. I know no more of electric and magnetic force or of the relation between ether, electricity,... "
Cyclopedic Review of Current History - Page 462
edited by - 1897
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Nature, Volume 54

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1896 - 794 pages
...advancement of science that I have made perseveringly during fifty-five years; that word is failure. I know no more of electric and magnetic force or of...; but in the pursuit of science, inborn necessity t» make the effort brings w ith it much of the cerlaminis gaudia — and saves the naturalist from...
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The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Volume 35

1910 - 844 pages
...I have made perseveringly for fifty-five years; that word is failure. I know no more of electric or magnetic force, or of the relation between ether,...of chemical affinity than I knew and tried to teach my class-students in my first session as professor." In dismissing finally this to the last degree...
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Scribner's Magazine ..., Volume 20

1896 - 1140 pages
...that word is failure. I know no more of electric and magnetic force or of the relation between either electricity and ponderable matter, or of chemical affinity, than I knew and tried to teach my students of natural philosophy fifty years ago in my first session as Professor. Something of sadness...
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Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, Volume 49

William Jay Youmans - Science - 1896 - 910 pages
...efforts for the advancement of science that I have made during fifty-five years; that word is failure. I know no more of electric and magnetic force, or...professor. Something of sadness must come of failure, but . . . what splendid compensations for philosophical failures we have had in the admirable discoveries...
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Scribner's Magazine, Volume 20

Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1896 - 994 pages
...between either electricity and ponderable matter, or of chemical affinity, than I knew and tried to teach my students of natural philosophy fifty years ago...; but in the pursuit of science, inborn necessity to-make the effort brings with it much of the certaminis gaudium, and saves the naturalist from being...
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Scribner's Magazine, Volume 20

Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1896 - 912 pages
...advancement of science that I have made perseveringly during fifty-five years ; that word is failure. I know no more of electric and magnetic force or of the relation between either electricity and ponderable matter, or of chemical affinity, than I knew and tried to teach my...
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Scientific Aspects of Christian Evidences: Xi, 362 P. 7 Il. D.

George Frederick Wright - Christianity - 1897 - 396 pages
...advancement of science that I have made perseveringly during fifty-five years. That word is failure. I know no more of electric and magnetic force, or...fifty years ago in my first session as professor. Without committing ourselves to all the inferences which have been drawn from them, we may, in conclusion,...
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Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley: With an Intermediate Chapter on ...

Edward Clodd - Science - 1897 - 284 pages
...commemoration of the jubilee of his Professorship in the University of Glasgow last year, Lord Kelvin said, ' I know no more of electric and magnetic force, or...of chemical affinity than I knew and tried to teach my students of natural philosophy fifty years ago in my first session as professor.' This recognition...
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Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley

Edward Clodd - Evolution - 1897 - 312 pages
...commemoration of the jubilee of his Professorship in the University of Glasgow last year, Lord Kelvin said, " I know no more of electric and magnetic force, or of the relation be- I tween ether, electricity, and ponderable matter, or of chemical affinity than I knew and tried...
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Theory of Thought and Knowledge

Borden Parker Bowne - Philosophy - 1897 - 416 pages
...advancement of science that I have made perseveringly through fifty-five years — that word is failure. I know no more of electric and magnetic force, or of the relations between ether, electricity, and ponderable matter, or of chemical affinity, than I knew and...
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