 | Arthur T. Winfree - Mathematics - 2001 - 810 pages
...Resetting in Drosophila pseudoobscura All this is a dream. Still, examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent...these experiment is the best test of such consistency. Michael Faraday, 19 March 1849 Lab Book Entry 10,040 Technology In D. pseudoobscura the technology... | |
 | William H. Cropper - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 518 pages
..."ALL THIS IS A DREAM [he wrote in his laboratory notebook]. Still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...such things as these, experiment is the best test of consistency." But the gravitational force refused to "bind up" with the other forces. "The results... | |
 | K. A. Milton, Jagdish Mehra - Physicists - 2000 - 726 pages
...a most subtle Spirit, which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies,"'" and closing with Faraday, 'Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...experiment is the best test of such consistency.' Schwinger had some difficulty with the copy editor at Science. He wrote back, 'The copy editor has... | |
 | Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, Jurek Kowalski-Glikman - Science - 2005 - 434 pages
...of spacetime, for, as Michael Faraday, the discoverer of electromagnetic induction, once observed: Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent...these, experiment is the best test of such consistency. Acknowledgments and T. Takahashi in the preparation of this manuscript is gratefully acknowledged.... | |
 | Literary Collections - 2005 - 237 pages
...with bemusement, if not scorn, for the new language of science was mathematical, Faraday's response: "Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature." It would not be until the 1 870s that the gifted mathematician James Clerk Maxwell fully translated... | |
 | Stephen Larsen - Psychology - 2007 - 275 pages
...electric motor? Faraday responded with perhaps the most memorable words ever uttered by a scientist: 'Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.'" And here's another example: The Wright brothers struggled from 1903 to 1908 to get the public to accept... | |
 | J. N. Reddy - Technology & Engineering - 2007 - 11 pages
...can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena. Leonard Euler Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature. Michael Faraday 5.1 Introduction Virtually every phenomenon in nature, whether mechanical, biological,... | |
 | Michael Gelb, Sarah Miller Caldicott - Business & Economics - 2007 - 328 pages
...epitaph. As he wrote in his notebook: "All this is a dream. Still, examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature." "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with... | |
 | Craig Hines - History - 2007 - 432 pages
...who did not believe he could generate an electric current by passing a magnet through a coil of wire: "Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature."72 305 Summary The alchemical arts were widespread throughout the ancient world, especially... | |
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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of Nature ; and in such things as these experiment is the best test of consistency. 
