 We must also in his case acquiesce in the fact, that the greatest benefactors of mankind usually do not obtain a full reward during their lifetime, and that new ideas need the more time for gaining general assent the more really original they are, and...  Scientific Manpower - Page 37by National Science Foundation (U.S.) - 1961Full view - About this book
 | Hermann von Helmholtz - Physics - 1895 - 712 pages
...without a firm, although perhaps hidden, foundation of truth. We must also in his case acquiesce in the fact that the greatest benefactors of mankind usually do not obtain a füll reward during their lifetime, and that new ideas need the niore time for gaining general assent... | |
 | 1899 - 338 pages
...should be without a firm, although perhaps hidden, basis of truth. We must also in his case acquiesce in the fact, that the greatest benefactors of mankind...general assent the more really original they are, and the more power they have to change the broad path of human knowledge.' The lecture, however, was... | |
 | John Gray McKendrick - Scientists - 1899 - 334 pages
...should be without a firm, although perhaps hidden, basis of truth. We must also in his case acquiesce in the fact, that the greatest benefactors of mankind...general assent the more really original they are, and the more power they have to change the broad path of human knowledge.' The lecture, however, was... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier - Physical sciences - 1904 - 392 pages
...instinctive genius of Faraday had carried him in advance of his age. " We must also in his case acquiesce in the fact that the greatest benefactors of mankind...general assent the more really original they are, and the more power they have to change the broad path of human knowledge." CHAPTER VI RADIO-ACTIVITY... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - Science - 1925 - 492 pages
...should be without a firm, although perhaps hidden, basis of truth. We must also in his case acquiesce in the fact, that the greatest benefactors of mankind...general assent the more really original they are, and the more power they have to change the broad path of human knowledge." * * Helmholtz, Vortrage... | |
 | United States. Soil Conservation Service - Correspondence schools and courses - 1976 - 248 pages
...discoveries. Barber (1961) quotes the following statement from a letter written by Helmholtz to Faraday: "... New ideas need the more time for gaining general assent the more really original they are." The development and spread of the conception of soils as organized natural bodies thus seems to have... | |
 | Mary J. Nye - Science - 1983 - 700 pages
...without a firm, although perhaps hidden, foundation of truth. We must also in his case acquiesce in the fact that the greatest benefactors of mankind...general assent the more really original they are, and the more power they have to change the broad path of human knowledge. Faraday's electrical researches,... | |
 | Madeleine Bastide - Science - 1997 - 312 pages
...formulated the theory of energy conservation and who was opposed by the physicists of his time noted how the "greatest benefactors of mankind usually do not obtain a full reward during their lifetime" (Murray, 1825). Lister warned medical students against blindness to new ideas in science, such as he... | |
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