 | Francois Arago - 1859
...ancient awl consecrated authorities, "Bear in mind. Gentlemen, that in questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of...single individual." Two centuries have passed over these words of Galileo without depreciating their value, or obliterating their truthful character.... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1875
...science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." Tsvo centuries have passed over their words of Galileo,...displaying a long list of illustrious admirers of the three beautiful works of Laplace, we have preferred glancing briefly at some of the sublime truths which... | |
 | Thomas H[ubbard] Musick - 1878 - 56 pages
...for doing so, however, is to be found ma saying of Galileo's: "In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." The aim of this little pamphlet is not. ta trace out and define the boundaries of the doctrine, but... | |
 | Thomas Hubbard Musick - 1890 - 377 pages
...be drawn from such facts. It is a saying of Galileo's, that" In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." And Prof. Tyndall has said : " Authority caused me for weeks to depart from the truth, and to seek... | |
 | Robert Édouard Moritz - 1914 - 410 pages
...and Miscellaneous Essays (New York, 1879), Vol. 1, p. 13. 1528. In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. GALILEO. Quoted in Arago's Eulogy on Laplace; Smithsonian Report, 1874, P- 1641629. Behind the artisan... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1917
...his too conservative audience, " Bear in mind, gentlemen, that in questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of...single individual." Two centuries have passed over these words of Galileo without lessening their value or impugning their truth. For this reason, it... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1898
...opinions, but believed with the great philosopher Galileo, that " In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." He was courteous, kind, and unselfish in a marked degree, and was uniformly cheerful and dignified.... | |
 | William K. Hartmann, Odell Raper - 1974 - 179 pages
...PUBLICATIONS RESULTING FROM MARINER 9 171 INDEX 175 Mars Before Mariner Ir questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. —ATTRIBUTED TO GALILEO One is permitted to say crazy things at least two times a year. — SCHIAPARELLI,... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 pages
...Fahie Galileo, Hit Life and Work transl IB Cohen, 1903 p 313 12 In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Arago's Eulogy of Laplace Smithsonian Report, 1874 p 164 13 Philosophy is written in that great book... | |
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