 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...  Science - Page 154edited by - 1889Full view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 pages
...out depends upon 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... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1890 - 610 pages
...are approximations, but of what order we cannot decide. Futliermore, if we accept the Irypothesis, the odds appear to be against the present attainment...formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data."2 When we pass from the restricted domain of quantitative results concerning geologic time to... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1890 - 616 pages
...twenty years ago, when Huxley warned us that the perfection of our mathematical mill is no gnaranty of the quality of the grist, adding that, "as the...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... | |
 | 1874 - 1026 pages
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 | 1884 - 1442 pages
...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 peascods, so pages...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... | |
 | 1869 - 668 pages
...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 peascods, so pages...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... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1869 - 700 pages
...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 extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages...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... | |
 | Sir Edwin Ray Lankester - 1870 - 200 pages
...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 peascods, so pages...will not get. a definite result out of loose data." — Anniversary Address to the Geological Society, 1869. In addition jto these classes of evidence,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 448 pages
...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 peascods, so pages...will not get a definite result out of loose data. In the present instance it appears to be admitted : — 1. That it is not absolutely certain, after... | |
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