...Vol. IV., p. 104. Lord Kelvin said : " Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking...all the grandest discoveries of science have been the rewards of accurate measurement and patient, long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical...

...those which have struck me as most notable. Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking...his mind, and so the discovery was made. It was by a lonr train of mathematical calculation, founded on results accumulated through prodigious toil of practical...

...those which have struck me as most notable. Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking...his mind, and so the discovery was made. It was by a Ion; train of mathematical calculation, founded on results accumulated through prodigious toil of practical...

...in his address to the British Association, says, " accurate and minute measurement seems to the more scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results." Professor Tait, in his opening address to the Physical Section, exhorts mathematicians to be up and...

...those which have struck mo as most notable. Accurate and minute measurement seems to tho non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking...But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science havo been but tho rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting...

...in promoting accurate measurement in various subjects. To the non-scientific imagination this seems a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something...But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science, including Newton's discovery of the law of gravitation, have been but the rewards of accurate measurement...

...Association would bo thoroughly appropriate. Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly ¡ill the grandest discoveries erf science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient...

...it is necessary that mirnerical results should be sought for and obtained. •' Nearly all the grand discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results," is a principle enunciated in the...

...science. ' Accurate and minute measurement,' says Sir William Thomson, ' seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.' (Address to the British Association, 1871.) In Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, at the present day,...

...British Association, in which he says, " Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than...of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grand discovery is that the theory of gravitation flashed upon his mind, and so the discovery was made....