 I weigh my words when I say that if the nation could purchase a potential Watt, or Davy, or Faraday, at the cost of a hundred thousand pounds down, he would be dirt-cheap at the money. It is a mere commonplace and everyday piece of knowledge, that what...  Famous Men of Science - Page 171de Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1926 - 333 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, Richard McAllister Smith, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John Patrick McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1879 - 584 pages
...afford. Whatever that might cost, depend upon it, the investment would be a good one. I weigh my words when I say that if the nation could purchase a potential Watt, or Davy, or Farraday, at the cost of a hundred thousand pounds down, he would be dirt-cheap at the money. It is... | |
 | 1878 - 446 pages
...afford. Whatever that might cost, depend upon it, the investment would be a good one. I weigh my words when I say that if the nation could purchase a potential Watt, or Davy, or Farrady, at the cost of a hundred thousand pounds down, he would be dirt cheap at the money. It is... | |
 | Samuel Royce - 1877 - 610 pages
...scope. Whatever that might cost, depend upon it the investment would be a good one. I weigh my words when I say that if the nation could purchase a potential Watt, or Davy, or Faraday, at a cost of a hundred thousand pounds down, he would be dirt cheap at the money." "A large allowance... | |
 | 1878 - 700 pages
...afford. Whatever that might cost, depsud upon it the investment would be a good one. I weigh my words when I say, that if the nation could purchase a potential Watt, or Davy, or Paarday, at the cost of a hundred thousand pounds down, he would be dirt cheap at the money." Were... | |
 | 1879 - 588 pages
...afford. Whatever that might cost, depend upon it the investment would be a good one. I weigh my words when I say that, if the nation could purchase a potential...the cost of a hundred thousand pounds down, he would he dirt-cheap at the money. It is a mere commonplace and every-day piece of knowledge that what these... | |
 | 1879 - 582 pages
...Whatever that might cost, depend upon it the investment would be a good one. I weigh my words when I «ay that, if the nation could purchase a potential Watt...the cost of a hundred thousand pounds down, he would lie dirt-cheap at tlie money. It is a mere commonplace anil every-day piece of knowledge that what... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1881 - 372 pages
...afford. Whatever that might cost, depend upon it the investment would be a good one. I weigh my words when I say that if the nation could purchase a potential...cost of a hundred thousand pounds down, he would be dirt-cheap at the money. It is a mere commonplace and everyday piece of knowledge, that what these... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 646 pages
...quality, a desire for excellence, or with special aptitudes of one sort or other. ... I weigh my words when I say that if the nation could purchase a potential...cost of a hundred thousand pounds down, he would be dirt-cheap at the money." Substantially the same views are expressed in the next 334 NATURE 335 essay,... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1919 - 632 pages
...discoveries made by sheer force of necessity. Or remember the statement of Huxley: I weigh my words when I say that if the nation could purchase a potential...cost of a hundred thousand pounds down, he would be dirt-cheap at the money. It is a mere commonplace and everyday piece of knowledge that what these men... | |
 | George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman - 1883 - 740 pages
...afford. Whatever that might cost, depend upon it the investment would be a good one. I weigh my words when I say that if the nation could purchase a potential...cost of a hundred thousand pounds down, he would be dirt-cheap at the money. It is a mere commonplace and everyday piece of knowledge that what these three... | |
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