We are no longer content to describe what we actually see or feel, but we describe what we imagine we should see or feel if our senses were on quite another scale of magnitude and sensibility. We cease to be physicists of the real and become physicists of the ideal.


Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association, The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, Volume 80, Number 2079, September 29, 1899 (p. 155)

John Henry Poynting Quotes

We are no longer content to describe what we actually see or feel, but we describe what we imagine we should see or feel if our senses were on quite...

We are no longer content to describe what we actually see or feel, but we describe what we imagine we should see or feel if our senses were on quite...

We are no longer content to describe what we actually see or feel, but we describe what we imagine we should see or feel if our senses were on quite...

We are no longer content to describe what we actually see or feel, but we describe what we imagine we should see or feel if our senses were on quite...