Pioneers of Science: Seven Pictures of Struggle and VictoryG. Routledge & sons, Limited, 1928 - 189 หน้า |
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หน้า 81 - Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth ; he breaketh the bow, and cutteih the spear in sunder ; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
หน้า 146 - ... a man so rare in knowledge, of so many several kinds, indued with the facility and felicity of expressing it all, in so elegant, significant, so abundant and yet so choice and ravishing a way of words, of metaphors, and allusions, as perhaps the world has not seen since it was a world.
หน้า 59 - I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant Land.
หน้า 18 - I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. But there is a spirit in man : and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
หน้า 31 - Indian mind towards mysticism and unchecked imagination. But in India this burning imagination which can extort new order out of a mass of apparently contradictory facts is also held in check by the habit of meditation. It is this restraint which confers the power to hold the mind in pursuit of truth, in infinite patience, to wait, and reconsider, to experimentally test and repeatedly verify.
หน้า 31 - It is forgotten that He, who surrounded us with this ever-evolving mystery of creation, the ineffable wonder that lies hidden in the microcosm of the dust particle, enclosing within the intricacies of its atomic form all the mystery of the cosmos, has also implanted in us the desire to question and understand.
หน้า 81 - There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: A mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
หน้า 152 - ... marriage. Till within the last few days it was mere report. It is, I trust, now a settled arrangement. I am the happiest of men in the hope of a union with a woman equally distinguished for virtues, talent, and accomplishments.
หน้า 134 - Anaxagoras did, who reduced himself with contemplation unto voluntary poverty : but this I will do ; I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some office of gain that shall be executed by deputy, and so give over all care of service, and become some sorry book-maker, or a true pioneer in that mine of truth, which (he said) lay so deep.
หน้า 137 - My ambition now I shall only put upon my pen, whereby I shall be able to maintain memory and merit of the times succeeding.