 | George Peacock - 1855 - 544 pagina’s
...discouragement ; but all the compliments which I have received from Arago, La Place, or Biot, have never given me so much pleasure as the discovery of a theoretical truth, or the confirmation of my calculations by experiment. The little eagerness which I have shown to publish my Memoirs, of which... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 682 pagina’s
...disgust and discouragement. But all the compliments which I have received from MM. Arago, De Laplace, or Biot, never gave me so much pleasure as the discovery...the relation of posterity. The Epoch of Induction in Opties is past ; we have now to trace the Verification and Application of the true theory. CHAPTER... | |
 | William Whewell - 1859 - 668 pagina’s
...disgust and discouragement. But all the compliments which I have received from MM. Arago, DC Laplace, or Biot, never gave me so much pleasure as the discovery...the Verification and Application of the true theory. CHAPTER XIII. CONFIRMATION AND EXTENSION OF THE UNDULATORY THEORY. AFTER the undulatory theory had... | |
 | William Whewell - 1866 - 680 pagina’s
...disgust and discouragement. But all the compliments which I have received from MM. Arago, De Laplace, or Biot, never gave me so much pleasure as the discovery...the Verification and Application of the true theory. CHAPTER XIII. CONFIRMATION AND EXTENSION OF THE UNDCLATORY THEORY. AFTER the undulatory theory had... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1873 - 206 pagina’s
...excite me to pursue my researches. But all the compliments I have received from Arago, De la Place, and Biot, never gave me so much pleasure as the discovery of a theoretic truth, or the confirmation of a calculation by experiment." This, ladies and gentlemen, is... | |
 | 1879 - 614 pagina’s
...excite me to pursue my researches. But all the compliments I have received from Arago, De la Place, and Biot, never gave me so much pleasure as the discovery of a theoretic truth, or the confirmation of a calcóla, tion by experiment. * This, ladies and gentlemen,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1881 - 318 pagina’s
...excite me to pursue my researches. But all the compliments I have received from Arago, De la Place, and Biot never gave me so much pleasure as the discovery of a theoretic truth, or the confirmation of a calculation by experiment.' This, then, is the core of the... | |
 | 1888 - 920 pagina’s
...disgust and discouragement But all the compliments which I have received from MM. Arago, De Laplace, or Biot, never gave me so much pleasure as the discovery...the confirmation of a calculation by experiment." f " Memorable cxemple de 1'impuissancc des recherches collectives appliqudes a la d£ couverte dcs... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1889 - 160 pagina’s
...disgust and discouragement. But all the compliments which I have received from MM. Arago, De Laplace, or Biot, never gave me so much pleasure as the discovery...the confirmation of a calculation by experiment.' them ; and men of great natural gifts have failed, absolutely or relatively, because they lacked this... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1889 - 822 pagina’s
...discouragement. But all the complimente which I have received from MM. Arago, De Laplace, or Biot, never gave mo so much pleasure as the discovery of a theoretical...the confirmation of a calculation by experiment." Lalf century, I may be thought to have exhibited more courage than discretion, and perhaps more presumption... | |
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... public, than to obtain an inward approval which has always been the sweetest reward of my efforts. Without doubt I have often wanted the spur of vanity to excite me to pursue my researches in moments of disgust and discouragement. But all the compliments... 
