 Aristotle down to Stokes and Kirchhoff, had any practical end in view, according to the ordinary definition of the word "practical." They did not propose to themselves money as an end, and knowledge as a means of obtaining it. For the most part, they...  Nature - Síða 221 breytti - 1873Heildartexta - Um bókina
 | John Tyndall - 1873 - 206 síður
...knowledge as a means of obtaining it. For the most part, they nobly reversed this process, made knowledge their end, and such money as they possessed the means...issues ; their reward was of a totally different kind. We love clothes, we love luxuries, we love fine equipages, we love money, and any man who can 'point... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1873 - 820 síður
...process, made knowledge their end, and such monc}' as they possessed the means of obtaining it; and we may see to-day the issues of their work in a thousand practical forms." " I know," De Tocqueville says of jrou, " the man of the North does not care for science as a pleasure,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1875 - 308 síður
...knowledge as a means of obtaining it. For the most part, they nobly reversed this process, made knowledge their end, and such money as they possessed the means of obtaining it. We see to-day the issues of their work in a thousand practical forms, and this may be thought sufficient... | |
 | 1879 - 614 síður
...it. For the most part, they nobly reversed this process, made knowledge their end, and such money M they possessed the means of obtaining it. We may see...But they did not work for such issues , their reward waiof a totally different kind. We love clothes, we love luxuries, we love fine equipages, we lovt... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1881 - 318 síður
...knowledge as a means of obtaining it. For the most part, they nobly reversed this process, made knowledge their end, and such money as they possessed the means of obtaining it. We see to-day the issues of their work in a thousand practical forms, and this may be thought sufficient... | |
 | Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 420 síður
...issues of their work in a thousand practical forms, and this may be thought sufficient to justify, if not ennoble their efforts. But they did not work...kind. In what way different? We love clothes, we love luxuries, we love fine equipages, we love money, and any man who can point to these as the result of... | |
 | Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 402 síður
...this process, made knowledge their end, and such money as they possessed the means of obtaining it. We see to-day the issues of their work in a thousand...forms, and this may be thought sufficient to justify, if not ennoble their efforts. But they did not work for such issues ; their reward was of a totally... | |
 | Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 420 síður
...knowledge as a means of obtaining it. For the most part, they nobly reversed this process, made knowledge their end, and such money as they possessed the means of obtaining it. We see to-day the issues of their work in a thousand practical forms, and this may be thought sufficient... | |
 | Joshua Lawrence Eason, Maurice Harley Weseen - 1921 - 472 síður
...York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. part, they nobly reversed this process, made knowledge their end, and such money as they possessed the means of obtaining it. We see to-day the issues of their work in a thousand practical forms, and this may be thought sufficient... | |
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