Peter Guthrie Tait Quote

[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.


in an address to the University of Edinburgh graduates, as quoted by Cargill Gilston Knott (1911). Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait. Cambridge University Press. p. 11.


[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.

[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.

[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.

[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.