 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 Seiten
...in the utmost confusion among the atoms, and have never yet come to any meaning. I will tell these disputants my opponents, not my own opinion, but my...considering these atoms, I was called to supper, and a galad I had asked for was set before me. — " It seems then," said I aloud, " that if pewter dishes,... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1868 - 496 Seiten
...when weary with writing, and my mind quite dusty with considering these atoms, I was called to sapper, and a salad I had asked for was set before me. It seem., then, I said aloud, that if pewter dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of salt, drops of water,... | |
 | William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson - 1877 - 340 Seiten
...statement of what Aristotle here "goes on to mention." The sentiment expressed is that of Kepler's wife: "Yesterday, when weary with writing, and my mind quite...pewter dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of salt, dreps of water, vinegar, and oil, and slices of egg, had been flying about in the air from all eternity,... | |
 | James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings - 1902 - 602 Seiten
...relates Kepler the astronomer, ' when weary with writing, and my mind quite dusty with considering the atoms, I was called to supper, and a salad I had asked for was set before me. " It seems then, I said, that if pewter dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of salt, drops of vinegar and oil, and slices... | |
 | Newman Smyth - 1902 - 304 Seiten
...Yesterday," the astronomer relates, " when weary with writing, and my mind quite dusty with considering the atoms, I was called to supper, and a salad I had asked for, was set before me. It seems then, I said, that if pewter dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of salt, drops of vinegar and oil, and slices... | |
 | Charles Frederic Aked - 1908 - 270 Seiten
...conclusion of the whole matter seems to lie in the story of Kepler and the salad : " Yesterday," he says, " when weary with writing, and my mind quite dusty with...dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of salt, drops of vinegar and oil, and slices of eggs, had been floating about in the air from all eternity, it might... | |
 | Charles Le Roy Goodell - 1911 - 316 Seiten
...Evolution And others call it God." Let me give a parable to the critics. " Yesterday," says Kepler, "when weary with writing and my mind quite dusty with...that if pewter dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of [19] salt, drops of vinegar and oil, and slices of eggs had been floating about in the air from all... | |
 | Charles Allen Dinsmore - 1912 - 258 Seiten
...anecdote of Kepler shows the instinctive revolt of the mind which laughs this hypothesis out of court. " Yesterday, when weary with writing, and my mind quite...I had asked for was set before me. It seems, then, I said aloud, that if pewter dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of salt, drops of vinegar and oil, and... | |
 | Ilion Tingnal Jones - 1922 - 180 Seiten
...work. The story of Kepler, the great astronomer, and his wife's salad is to the point here. Said he, "Yesterday, when weary with writing, and my mind quite...dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of salt, drops of vinegar and oil, and slices of eggs, had been floating about in the air from all eternity, a salad... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1954 - 452 Seiten
...characteristic oddity, yet good sense, "I will tell these disputants, — my opponents, — not my opinion, but my wife's. Yesterday, when weary with...considering these atoms, I was called to supper, and a salad that I had asked for was set before me. 'It seems, then,' said I, aloud, 'that if pewter dishes, leaves... | |
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Yesterday, when weary with writing, and my mind quite dusty with considering these atoms, I was called to supper, and a salad I had asked for was set before me. 
