 | Science - 1909 - 636 pages
...opposed the great cause he championed, seldom lost an opportunity to say hard things about the science "which knows nothing of observation, nothing of experiment, nothing of induction, nothing of causation."* In Professor Sylvester's brilliant and memorable reply to some of Huxley's after-dinner denunciations,5... | |
 | Science - 1909 - 644 pages
...opposed the great cause he championed, seldom lost an opportunity to say hard things about the science "which knows nothing of observation, nothing of experiment, nothing of induction, nothing of causation."* In Professor Sylvester's brilliant and memorable reply to some of Huxley's after-dinner denunciations,8... | |
 | Science - 1912 - 712 pages
...speaking of the sciences as they are in themselves and without any reference to scholastic discipline, that Mathematics "is that study which knows nothing of observation, nothing of induction, nothing of experiment, nothing of causation." I, of course, am not so absurd as to maintain... | |
 | Science - 1985 - 442 pages
...few simple propositions . . . and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. . . . Mathematics is that study which knows nothing of observation,...experiment, nothing of induction, nothing of causation." Mathematicians know their subject is not like that. They know that the finished demonstrations they... | |
 | Hans Freudenthal - Education - 1973 - 698 pages
...more strongly and explicitly by the same eminent writer in an article of even date with the preceding in the Fortnightly Review, where we are told that...more opposite to the undoubted facts of the case, that mathematical analysis is constantly invoking the aid of new principles, new ideas, and new methods,... | |
 | P. Theerman, Karen Hunger Parshall - History - 1997 - 336 pages
...quote from yet another one of Huxley's published papers, where the biologist defined mathematics as "that study which knows nothing of observation, nothing of experiment, nothing of induction, nothing of causation!"14 Sylvester roundly attacked this view in his address through a series of examples taken... | |
 | C.C. Gaither, Alma E Cavazos-Gaither - Mathematics - 1998 - 506 pages
...Committee and the Members of the Common Council of the City of London, 4 December, 1854 (p. 5) ... we are told that "Mathematics is that study which knows nothing of observation, nothing of induction, nothing of causation." I think no statement could have been made more opposite to the undoubted... | |
 | William Bragg Ewald - Mathematics - 2005 - 696 pages
...more strongly and explicitly by the same eminent writer in an article of even date with the preceding in the Fortnightly Review, where we are told that...more opposite to the undoubted facts of the case, that mathematical analysis is constantly invoking the aid of new principles, new ideas, and new methods,... | |
 | John de Pillis - Mathematics - 2002 - 364 pages
...Mathematical Philosophy, ch. XVIII, Dover Pubns, October 1993. [451] [Mathematics] is that [subject] which knows nothing of observation, nothing of experiment, nothing of induction, nothing of causation. —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) The Scientific Aspects of Positivism, Fortnightly Review (1898);... | |
 | Karen Hunger Parshall - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 500 pages
...position even more strongly in the Fortnightly Review essay, when he exclaimed that mathematics "is that which knows nothing of observation, nothing of experiment, nothing of induction, nothing of causation!"37 These were the fighting words that drew Sylvester's fire in Exeter. Huxley may have been... | |
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is that study which knows nothing of observation, nothing of induction, nothing of experiment, nothing of causation. 
