William Benjamin Carpenter Quote

No one who attentively examines the progress of any department of Science, save such as are (like Mathematics or Metaphysics) of a purely abstract character, can fail to perceive how much it is dependent upon the perfection of its instruments.


The Microscope and Its Revelations, Introduction (p. 1), John Churchill. 1866


No one who attentively examines the progress of any department of Science, save such as are (like Mathematics or Metaphysics) of a purely abstract...

No one who attentively examines the progress of any department of Science, save such as are (like Mathematics or Metaphysics) of a purely abstract...

No one who attentively examines the progress of any department of Science, save such as are (like Mathematics or Metaphysics) of a purely abstract...

No one who attentively examines the progress of any department of Science, save such as are (like Mathematics or Metaphysics) of a purely abstract...