Letters to 'The Times', 1884-1922private circulation, 1927 - 284 páginas |
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... Space and Time . Is Space Physical ? Dec. 24 , 1921 . The Infinite Body of the Universe Jan. 7 , 1922 . From Euclid to Einstein May 2 , 1922 . May 17 , 1922 . Aristotle on Metaphysics Theory of Motion • • · 242 246 . 249 252 · · 258 261 ...
... Space and Time . Is Space Physical ? Dec. 24 , 1921 . The Infinite Body of the Universe Jan. 7 , 1922 . From Euclid to Einstein May 2 , 1922 . May 17 , 1922 . Aristotle on Metaphysics Theory of Motion • • · 242 246 . 249 252 · · 258 261 ...
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... space in your columns in order to impress on non - resident members of Convocation the magnitude of the issue which has to be deter- mined for the whole future of Oxford ? The proposed statute appears to be a proposal merely to admit ...
... space in your columns in order to impress on non - resident members of Convocation the magnitude of the issue which has to be deter- mined for the whole future of Oxford ? The proposed statute appears to be a proposal merely to admit ...
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... space to which we can assign no limits . In order nowadays to form some idea of the intellectual effort and the moral courage needed to enunciate so unexpected a truth for the first time , we must return in imagination to the sixteenth ...
... space to which we can assign no limits . In order nowadays to form some idea of the intellectual effort and the moral courage needed to enunciate so unexpected a truth for the first time , we must return in imagination to the sixteenth ...
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... space and time , and the man of religion has a right to speculate on the cause of this world of moving bodies . Hume , the consistent agnostic , left only ' a certain un- known , inexplicable something as the cause of our perceptions ...
... space and time , and the man of religion has a right to speculate on the cause of this world of moving bodies . Hume , the consistent agnostic , left only ' a certain un- known , inexplicable something as the cause of our perceptions ...
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... space . The scientific men present appear to have accepted the facts , and con- cluded that the cause is some influence or other of the sun ; and in a letter published by you on Nov. 8 , Sir Oliver Lodge said that the eclipse result is ...
... space . The scientific men present appear to have accepted the facts , and con- cluded that the cause is some influence or other of the sun ; and in a letter published by you on Nov. 8 , Sir Oliver Lodge said that the eclipse result is ...
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Página 134 - Every person who, with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority — 1.
Página 189 - We believe that the intolerable wrongs done in this war by the furious and brutal power of the Imperial German Government ought to be repaired...
Página 254 - THE views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.
Página 279 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand'; which they thought a malevolent speech.
Página 36 - SWEET stream, that winds through yonder glade, Apt emblem of a virtuous maid — Silent and chaste she steals along, Far from the world's gay busy throng ; • With gentle yet prevailing force, Intent upon her destined course ; Graceful and useful all she does, Blessing and blest where'er she goes. Pure-bosom'd as that watery glass, And heaven reflected in her face.
Página 279 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 274 - And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
Página 208 - might be rendered another source of revenue more abundant, perhaps, than all...
Página 279 - ... emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Página 121 - ... historical or philosophical. There is a narrow professional spirit which may grow up among men of science, just as it does among men who practise any other special business. But surely a University is the very place where we should be able to overcome this tendency of men to become, as it were, granulated into small worlds, which are all the more worldly for their very smallness. We lose the advantage of having men of varied pursuits collected into one body, if we do not endeavour to imbibe some...