 | Norman Macleod - 1871 - 940 Seiten
...be openly acknowledged." " All this is a dream" he cries ; " still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...such things as these experiment is the best test of consistency." And he even raxes clear and deliberate in warning: — •'As I begin by a warning against... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1870 - 660 Seiten
...ranks. We must not mix up the exact and the inexact. The supremacy of accuracy must be absolute. " Nothing is too -wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...experiment is the best test of such consistency." The first requisite is to be sure of facts; then to ascertain conditions ; next, laws. Accuracy and knowledge... | |
 | Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - 1870 - 514 Seiten
...examination and thought, and ends saying : 'ALL THIS is A DREAM. Still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...experiment is the best test of such consistency.' Again, March 28, he writes : ' If there should happen to be any result of the kind imagined, then a... | |
 | H. A. Page - 1873 - 448 Seiten
...be openly acknowledged." " All this is a dream," he cries ; " still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...such things as these experiment is the best test of consistency." And he even waxes clear and deliberate in warning : — " As I begin by a warning against... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1873 - 448 Seiten
...be openly acknowledged." " All this is a dream," he cries ; " still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...such things as these experiment is the best test of consistency." And he even waxes clear and deliberate in warning : — "As I begin by a warning against... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1874 - 502 Seiten
...motion was reversed. ' All this is a dream,' he remarks ; ' still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...experiment is the best test of such consistency.' He executed many difficult and tedious experiments, which are described in the 24th Series of Experimental... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1874 - 524 Seiten
...the motion was reversed. ' All this is a dream,' he remarks; ' still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature; h See also his more formal statement in the ' Experimental Researches in Electricity,' 24th Series,... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1874 - 984 Seiten
...statement in the ' Experimental Researches in Electricity,' 24th Series, § 2702, vol. iii. p. 161. and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency.' He executed many difficult and tedious experiments, which are described in the 24th Series of Experimental... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1877 - 844 Seiten
...formal statement in the Experimental Researchet in Electricity, 24th Series, § 2702, voL iii. p. 161. it be consistent with the laws of nature; and in such...experiment is the best test of such consistency." He executed many difficult and tedious experiments, which are described in the 24th Series of Experimental... | |
 | 1883 - 702 Seiten
...bzpossible, whilst we cannot say what is impossible, outside pure mathematics, till we know every thing. " In the present case, I prefer to enter upon the inquiry...experiment is the best test of such consistency.' After some observations on the perfection of instruments that may be used in such investigations, and... | |
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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of Nature ; and in such things as these experiment is the best test of consistency. 
