...runs high. To this fact these words from Faraday2 bear striking testimony: "The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed...and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examinations; that in the most successful instances not a tenth of the suggestions, the hopes, the...

...Principles of Science, London, 1883, p. 577. Jevons quotes Faraday as saying: "The world little knowns'how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed...mind of a scientific investigator have been crushed to silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination ; that in the most successful...

...knows," Faraday said, " how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of the scientific investigator have been crushed in silence...his own severe criticism and adverse examination." And, finally, it is possible that it is the existence, side by side, of alternative theory-systems...

...scientific frame of mind" (Grammar of Science, 1900 edition, p. 6). As Faraday said: "The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed...wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized." As a complementary statement we give another quotation from the same great authority: '' The philosopher...

...consistency. At another time in writing of the activity of the scientist he said: " The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed...wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized. From the standpoint of the functions they perform in scientific investigation, hypotheses may be regarded...

...well-founded." "The world little knows," remarks Faraday, "how many of the thoughts and theories that have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator...the wishes, the preliminary conclusions, have been realised." In a process so arduous as creativeness is thus shown to be, it is evident enough that the...

...guesses at truth are among the first requisites of discovery." And Faraday said: "The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed...that in the most successful instances not a tenth 446 EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY of the suggestions, the hopes, the wishes, the preliminary conclusions have...

...Jevons points out, from the examples of Kepler and Faraday, that, to use the words of the latter, " in the most successful instances not a tenth of the...wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized." He then considers the method pursued by Newton in the ' Prineipia' and the ' Optics' as a type of the...

...problem. Faraday, another illustrious physicist and chemist, admitted that the world little knows how many thoughts and theories which have passed through the...and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examinations; that in the most successful instances not a tenth of the suggestions, the hopes, the...

...the false starts and fallacious conjectures. Faraday admitted that "the world little knows how many thoughts and theories which have passed through the...and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examinations; that in the most successful instances not a tenth of the suggestions, the hopes, the...