 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...  Annual Report of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club - Page 85by Belfast Naturalists' Field Club - 1863Full view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 pages
...opportunity for extending their domain by original research. He further compares mathematical science to a "mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds...fineness ; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peascods,... | |
 | Biology - 1884 - 1442 pages
...is allowed to throw a wholly inadmissible appearance of authority over the results obtained by them. Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite...degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get depends on what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from... | |
 | Geological Society of London - Electronic journals - 1869 - 632 pages
...is allowed to throw a wholly inadmissible appearance of authority over the results obtained by them. Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite...not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data. In the present instance it appears to be... | |
 | 1869 - 668 pages
...vanity and Pelf-sufficiency are almost us rife as mutual recrimination. According to Professor Huxley, " Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite...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... | |
 | Science - 1869 - 692 pages
...is allowed to throw a wholly inadmissible appearance of authority over the results obtained by them. Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite...of any degree of fineness ; but, nevertheless, what VOL. vi. 2 H you get out depends on what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - Science - 1869 - 700 pages
...is allowed to throw a wholly inadmissible appearance of authority over the results obtained by them. Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite...of any degree of fineness ; but, nevertheless, what VOL. vi. 2 H you get out depends on what you put in ; and as the grandest mill m the world will not... | |
 | Geological Society of London - Electronic journals - 1869 - 674 pages
...workmanship, which grinds you stuff degree of fineness ; hut, nevertheless, what you get out dcpei what you put in ; and 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.... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1870 - 444 pages
...is allowed to throw a wholly inadmissible appearance of authority over the results obtained by them. Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite...not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data. In the present instance it appears to be... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1870 - 400 pages
...is allowed to throw a wholly inadmissible appearance of authority over the results obtained by them. Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite...fineness ; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from p"ascods,... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard - 1872 - 212 pages
...the power of the mathematics may be properly applied. " The mathematics," observes the Professor, " may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in." And here... | |
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