Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long contained labor in the minute sifting of numerical results.


Report of the British Association For the Advancement of Science, Volume 41, xci, 1871

William Thomson Quotes

Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all ...

Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all ...

Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all ...

Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all ...