 Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, — sound and sufficient knowledge of mathematics, the great instrument of all exact inquiry, without which no man can ever make such advances...  School Science and Mathematics - Page 221912Full view - About this book
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...of its accesses, and put them in possession of the pass-word. Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, — a sound and guffeient knowledge of mathematics, the great instrument of all exact enquiry, without... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...of its accesses, and put them in possession of the pass-word. Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, — a sound and sufficient knowledge of mathematics, the great instru. ment of all exact enquiry, without... | |
 | 1834 - 596 pages
...sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained hy one means, — a sound and sufficient knowledge of mathematics, the great instrument of all exact enquiry, tcithout which no man can ever make such advances in this or any other of the higher departments... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1894 - 604 pages
...depending much on the authority of others. This can only be in the words of Sir John Herschel by a " sound and sufficient knowledge of mathematics, the...without which no man can ever make such advances in any of the higher departments of science as can entitle him to form an independent opinion on any subject... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1839 - 464 pages
...on the mind of every aspirant after scientific knowledge. " Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, a sound and sufficient knowledge of Mathematics, the great instrument of all exact inquiry, without... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1840 - 376 pages
...on the mind of every aspirant after scientific knowledge. " Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, a stmnd and sufficient knowledge of Mathematics, the great instrument of all exact inquiry, without... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1840 - 566 pages
...on the mind of every aspirant after scientific knowledge. " Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, a sound ami efficient knowledge of Mathematics, the great instrument of all exact 'tqtitry, u-ithfut... | |
 | 1840 - 430 pages
...accesses, and put them in possession of the pass-word. Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privi. leges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means —[mark, reader, the italics, for they are Sir John Herschel's own—his mode of giving additional... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1843 - 576 pages
...its sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, a sound and sufficient knowledge of Mathematics, the...without which no man can ever make such advances in tlns or any other of the higher departments of science, as can entitle him to form an independent opinion... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1848 - 436 pages
...its sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, a sound and sufficient knowledge of Mathematics, the...any other of the higher departments of science, as tan entitle him to form an independent opinion on any subject of discussion within their range." Treatise... | |
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