You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.

Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and in sticking them onto those which are too small; a species of 'equitable adjustment,' as a radical would term it, which cannot be admitted in science.

What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.