 | William Louis Poteat - 1915 - 168 Seiten
...never penetrate, on which science swims as a mere superficial film." His word of 1840 is true to-day: "This world, after all our science and sciences, is...miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical, and more." The Relations of Science We have now dealt with the content, method, results, scope, and function of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 Seiten
...done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which...inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. That great mystery of TIME, were there no other: the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called... | |
 | New York (N.Y.). Board of Education - 1957 - 774 Seiten
...has come as the result of providing a new question rather than a new answer. — PAUL A. MEGLITSCH This world, after all our science and sciences, is...inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. — THOMAS CARLYLE Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride. — CLAUDE BERNARD... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1924 - 404 Seiten
...done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which...swims as a mere superficial film. This world , after (I) Giustamente I'A. lamenta che con un nome, quale quello di nalura od universo, c\ avvezziamo a non... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 Seiten
...done much for us ; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great, deep, sacred infinitude n some such telescopic world by those who make a livelihood...sacrifice is a woman? How, if it be published in that dis That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, neverresting thing called... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 Seiten
...done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which...inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 Seiten
...done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which...inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called... | |
 | Mary Agnes Hamilton - 1926 - 232 Seiten
...great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science in swims as a mere superficial film. This world, after...magical^ and more, to whosoever will think of it." Modern science has given back the sense of wonder to the world of which mid-Victorian science deprived... | |
 | Frank M. Turner - 1993 - 392 Seiten
...done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred inf1nitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.'20 It was but a short step from Carlyle's Nescience to Herbert Spencer's Unknowable. Yet the... | |
 | Garry Moes - 2007 - 132 Seiten
...great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms. Edgar Allen Poe (18O9- 1843} This world, after all our science and sciences, is...inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. Thomas Carfyte (1795- 1O81) You and I must not complain if our plans break down if we have done our... | |
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... electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk; but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it? Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great... 
