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" Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness ; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from... "
Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews - Página 249
por Thomas Henry Huxley - 1888 - 378 páginas
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 páginas
...what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data" (p. 249). And so, while fully admitting the importance of mathematical studies for those who will make...
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The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected ..., Volumen41

1872 - 1120 páginas
...Huxley states in his "Lay Sermons," whilst writing on geological reform, that it is generally admitted that it is not absolutely certain, after all, whether...is undergoing acceleration, or the earth's rotation retardation. S. WADDINGTON. THE NAUTICAL MAGAZINE. NEW SERIES. NOVEMBER, 1872. OUR GREAT PORTS. SECOND...
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of ..., Volumen38

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1890 - 616 páginas
...quality of the grist, adding that, "as the grandest mill will not extract wheat-flour from peas-cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data."9 When we pass from the restricted domain of qnantitative results concerning geologic time to...
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The American Naturalist, Volumen18

1884 - 1442 páginas
...what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data."1 Not only in mathematical and physical science, but in all science, no amount of discussion...
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The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volumen25

Geological Society of London - 1869 - 674 páginas
...as the grandest mill in the world wiU i tract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formula will no definite result out of loose data. In the present...is not absolutely certain, after all, whether the mean motion is undergoing acceleration, or the earth's rotati tardation*. And yet this is the key of...
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The Quarterly Journal of Science, Volumen6

1869 - 692 páginas
...annually. He points out that although so much stress is laid by Sir W. Thomson on retardation, yet " it is not absolutely certain, after all, whether the...is undergoing acceleration, or the earth's rotation retardation ; and yet this is the key to the whole position." " If the rapidity of the earth's rotation...
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Monthly Journal of Science, and Annals of Biology, Astronomy ..., Volumen6

James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1869 - 700 páginas
...what you put in ; and as the grandest mill m the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data." The most important papers contained in the 'Journal of Proceedings ' are Mr. TW Kingsmill's communication...
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The North British Review, Volúmenes50-51

1869 - 668 páginas
...what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data." According to Common Sense (which, though it is not obvious in the preceding extract, Professor Huxley...
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On Comparative Longevity in Man and the Lower Animals

Sir Edwin Ray Lankester - 1870 - 200 páginas
...what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get. a definite result out of loose data." — Anniversary Address to the Geological Society, 1869. In addition jto these classes of evidence,...
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Memoir of the Construction of a Masonry Dam for a Storage Reservoir

J. James R. Croes - 1875 - 84 páginas
...what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peas^ cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.' " Mr. Croes replied in these words : " I receive this medal at your hands, Mr. President, with feelings...
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