George Darwin Quote

Great laboratories have... a rather serious defect, in that they tend to make all but the very best students helpless, and thus to dwarf their powers of resource and inventiveness.


The Tides and Kindred Phenomena in the Solar System, Chapter II (p. 18), Houghton Mifflin & Co. 1898


Great laboratories have... a rather serious defect, in that they tend to make all but the very best students helpless, and thus to dwarf their powers ...

Great laboratories have... a rather serious defect, in that they tend to make all but the very best students helpless, and thus to dwarf their powers ...

Great laboratories have... a rather serious defect, in that they tend to make all but the very best students helpless, and thus to dwarf their powers ...

Great laboratories have... a rather serious defect, in that they tend to make all but the very best students helpless, and thus to dwarf their powers ...