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 462edited by - 1897Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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