 be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its practical application ; and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of discovering...  Popular Lectures and Addresses - Strona 70autor: William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1889Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1921 - Liczba stron: 472
...science which can raise our nature to its highest degree of perfection." (Mahaffy, Descartes, p. 65.) "There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking...properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind." (Lord Kelvin, Constitution of Matter, pp. 86-87.) Contrast these citations with the first sentence... | |
 | 1916 - Liczba stron: 880
...possible improvements. His views as to the practical value of science were definite and unmistakable. The life and soul of science is its practical application;...properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind. No matter to what branch of human activity the subject belongs, the preliminary scientific investigation... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1916 - Liczba stron: 838
...possible improvements. His views as to the practical value of science were definite and unmistakable. ' The life and soul of science is its practical application...properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind.' No matter to what branch of human activity the subject belongs, the preliminary scientific investigation... | |
 | 1884 - Liczba stron: 616
...submarine telegraphy. There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon j practical applications of science. The life and soul...an arbitrary trade standard, as in the Birmingham wire gauge, is the discovery of a •continuously- varying action of some kind, and the means of observing... | |
 | Institution of civil engineers - 1884 - Liczba stron: 200
...the higher region of scientific investigation, than that which, from twenty to thirty years ago, was brought about by the practical requirements of submarine...turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to Borne purpose useful to mankind. The first step toward numerical reckoning of properties of matter,... | |
 | Institution of Electrical Engineers - 1908 - Liczba stron: 958
...had any prejudice against the utilisation of science for practical ends. "There cannot," he wrote, "be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously...properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind." And so he scorned not to devise instruments and appliances for commercial use. His electrometers, his... | |
 | 1908 - Liczba stron: 1016
...had any prejudice against the utilisation of science for practical ends. "There cannot," he wrote, "be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously...properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind." And so he scorned not to devise instruments and appliances for commercial use. His electrometers, his... | |
 | Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland - 1908 - Liczba stron: 714
...practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its practical application ; and just us the great advances in mathematics have been made through...properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind." In 1892 Sir William Thomson, while President of the Royal Society, was raised to the Peerage, and later... | |
 | Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland - 1908 - Liczba stron: 714
...that have been made from the beginning of the world to the present time have been made in theearnest desire to turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind." In 1892 Sir William Thomson, while President of the Royal Society, was raised to the Peerage, and later... | |
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