Man has to apply a very weak intellect to a very complicated world; and the resources of the human intellect are too narrow, and the universe is too complex to leave any hope that it will ever be within man's power to carry scientific perfection to Tennyson's last degree of simplicity:.One law, one element.


A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, (Volume 1), Chapter I (p. 10)

Joseph William Mellor Quotes

Man has to apply a very weak intellect to a very complicated world; and the resources of the human intellect are too narrow, and the universe is too...

Man has to apply a very weak intellect to a very complicated world; and the resources of the human intellect are too narrow, and the universe is too...

Man has to apply a very weak intellect to a very complicated world; and the resources of the human intellect are too narrow, and the universe is too...

Man has to apply a very weak intellect to a very complicated world; and the resources of the human intellect are too narrow, and the universe is too...