 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903 - 902 pages
...be overdone. The number of discoverable facts is practically infinite, and it is therefore jjossible to get into such a condition as not to be- able to...will not stand the test of verification, and that it is quite unnecessary for him to trouble other workers with such theories. He can test them for himself,... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1910 - 492 pages
...an eminence and looking out across a vast sweep of landscape. It is possible to be too detailed, so as not to be able to see the wood for the trees. Yet Christ's works stand the test of detailed examination. His influence on epochs is not more incomparable... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1925 - 324 pages
...thin wood], Up a tree, The top of the tree, Hearts of oak, Root and branch. To be out of the wood, Not to be able to see the wood for the trees, To scrape through (?), To get into a scrape (?), To bow to the storm (?), From the wind and rain and weather,... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1925 - 320 pages
...thin [thicket and thin wood], Up a tree, The top of the tree, Hearts of oak, To be out of the wood, Not to be able to see the wood for the trees, To scrape through (?), To get into a scrape (?), Root and branch. To bow to the storm (?), From the wind... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903 - 906 pages
...as fact, may easily be overdone. The number of discoverable facts is practically infinite, and it 's therefore possible to get into such a condition as...will not stand the test of verification, and that it is quite unnecessary for him to trouble other workers with such theories. He can test them for himself,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903 - 900 pages
...of fact, as fact, may easily bo overdone. The number of discoverable facts is practically infinite, and it is therefore .possible to get into such a condition...interminable trivialities. On the other hand, it should be remembered that ever}' worker endowed with imagination must formulate, in his own mind, many theories... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903 - 892 pages
...of fact, as fact, may easily be overdone. The number of discoverable facts is practically infinite, and it is therefore possible to get into such a condition as not to be able to sec the wood for the trees, to lose the due, .sense of proportion, and to become mere machines for... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903 - 960 pages
...of fact, as fact, may easily be overdone. The number of discoverable facts- is practically infinite, and it is therefore possible to get into such a condition as not to l»e able to see the wood for the trees, to lose the due sense of proportion, and to become mere machines... | |
 | Hans Schemann, Paul Knight - 1995 - 1296 pages
...wirklich jeder zweite am Galgen? Bäumen: vor lauter Bäumen den Wald nicht (mehr) sehen i/.if.v • not (to be able) to see the wood for the trees, to get bogged down in/to be blinded by/. . . details Paß auf, Rudi, die Verdauung fängt im Mund an.... | |
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... praise of having discovered it. ical history. Armchair philosophizing, apart from actual work in the field, the, laboratory, and the museum, is by no means to be commended. But the worship of fact, as fact, may easily be overdone. The number of discoverable... 