 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...  Discourses Biological and Geological: Essays - Page 336by Thomas Henry Huxley - 1913 - 392 pagesFull view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 pages
...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... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1872 - 1120 pages
...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...acceleration, or the earth's rotation retardation. S. WADDINGTON. THE NAUTICAL MAGAZINE. NEW SERIES. NOVEMBER, 1872. OUR GREAT PORTS. SECOND to the size,... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1890 - 616 pages
...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... | |
 | Biology - 1884 - 1442 pages
...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... | |
 | Science - 1869 - 692 pages
...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...earth's rotation retardation ; and yet this is the key to the whole position." " If the rapidity of the earth's rotation is diminishing, it is not certain... | |
 | Geological Society of London - Electronic journals - 1869 - 674 pages
...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... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - Science - 1869 - 700 pages
...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... | |
 | 1869 - 668 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1870 - 400 pages
...as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from p"ascods, so pages of formulas will not get a definite result out of loose data....is undergoing acceleration, or the earth's rotation retardation.1 And yet this is the key of the whole position. 2. If the rapidity of the earth's rotation... | |
 | Sir Edwin Ray Lankester - Life (Biology) - 1870 - 200 pages
...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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