 | Henri Poincaré, George Bruce Halsted - 1907 - 160 pages
...experiences whose result is known beforehand. But we have as yet looked at only one side of the question. The scientist does not study nature because it is...it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing,... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1909 - 682 pages
...experiences whose result is known beforehand. But we have as yet looked at only one side of the ques tion. The scientist does not study nature because it is...useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he de lights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing,... | |
 | Albert Schinz - 1909 - 328 pages
...(April, 1909) and which are of interest at this point of our discussion. "The scientist," he says, "does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it. . . ." (pp. 236-237.) Or again: "The people whose ideal most conformed to their highest interest .... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1911 - 308 pages
...another place he states the reasons why a scientist is impelled to his labors in the following terms : "The scientist does not study nature because it is...it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing,... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1911 - 688 pages
...reasons why a scientist is impelled to his labors in the following terms: "The scientist does n«K study nature because it is useful: he studies it because...it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing. and if nature were not worth knowing,... | |
 | 1912 - 660 pages
...comprehensible how we should prize the slow and painful progress by which we learn little by little to know it. The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because it pleases him, and it pleases him because it is beautiful. Were nature not beautiful, it would not... | |
 | Henri Poincaré - 1913 - 584 pages
...experiences whose result is known beforehand. But we have as yet looked at only one side of the question. The scientist does not study nature because it is...it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing,... | |
 | Lizzie Susan Stebbing - 1914 - 306 pages
...intellectualist temper upon which Dr Schiller pours such scorn. "The scientist," Prof. Poincare says, " does not study nature because it is useful ; he studies it because he finds pleasure in it, and he finds pleasure in it because it is beautiful," and this beauty is an intellectual... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess - 1915 - 900 pages
...for truth. One of the greatest of scientists kept alive his sense for first things. Says Poincare: The scientist does not study nature because it is...it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If 1 The Measure of the Hours, p. 131. I have argued for the instinctive character of our higher categories... | |
 | 1915 - 778 pages
...the imagination can produce. The great French astronomer and scientist Henri Poincare tells us that the scientist does not study nature because it is useful. He studies it because it pleases him, and it pleases him because it is beautiful. He says, "Were nature not beautiful, she... | |
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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would... 
