| Richard Milton - 1996 - 276 Seiten
...as a charlatan. Faraday responded with perhaps the most memorable words ever uttered by a scientist: 'Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.' Only twenty years after Faraday made the breakthrough in electromagnetism that made the modern world... | |
| Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao - 2000 - 322 Seiten
...reactions. Faraday believed that experiment provided the only way to understand nature. As he said, Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...these, experiment is the best test of such consistency. There is no better way of paying tribute to Michael Faraday than by recounting the words of Rutherford:... | |
| Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 Seiten
...strewed with flowers. Advice to a Lecturer (1960); from his letters and notebook written at age 2 1 12 Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature, and in such things as those, experiment is the best test of such consistency. diary, I9\1arch 1849; Faraday's Diary (1954... | |
| Julian Schwinger - 2000 - 812 Seiten
...a most subtle Spirit, which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies,'5 and closing with Faraday, 'Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...experiment is the best test of such consistency.' Schwinger next revisited magnetic charge in (1975), in 'Magnetic Charge and the Charge Quantization... | |
| Arthur T. Winfree - 2001 - 810 Seiten
...Resetting in Drosophila pseudoobscura All this is a dream. Still, examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent...these experiment is the best test of such consistency. Michael Faraday, 19 March 1849 Lab Book Entry 10,040 Technology In D. pseudoobscura the technology... | |
| William H. Cropper - 2004 - 518 Seiten
..."ALL THIS IS A DREAM [he wrote in his laboratory notebook]. 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." But the gravitational force refused to "bind up" with the other forces. "The results... | |
| K. A. Milton, Jagdish Mehra - 2000 - 726 Seiten
...a most subtle Spirit, which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies,"'" and closing with Faraday, 'Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...experiment is the best test of such consistency.' Schwinger had some difficulty with the copy editor at Science. He wrote back, 'The copy editor has... | |
| Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, Jurek Kowalski-Glikman - 2005 - 434 Seiten
...of spacetime, for, as Michael Faraday, the discoverer of electromagnetic induction, once observed: Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...these, experiment is the best test of such consistency. Acknowledgments and T. Takahashi in the preparation of this manuscript is gratefully acknowledged.... | |
| 2005 - 237 Seiten
...with bemusement, if not scorn, for the new language of science was mathematical, Faraday's response: "Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature." It would not be until the 1 870s that the gifted mathematician James Clerk Maxwell fully translated... | |
| Stephen Larsen - 2007 - 275 Seiten
...electric motor? Faraday responded with perhaps the most memorable words ever uttered by a scientist: 'Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.'" And here's another example: The Wright brothers struggled from 1903 to 1908 to get the public to accept... | |
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