 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 380 σελίδες
...hiir fix his eyes and his mind on a single object; and Newton is said to have said, as you remember, " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait...by little and little into a full and clear light." These are different, but certainly very wonderful, instances of what can be done by attention. But... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 380 σελίδες
...him fix his eyes and his mind on a single object; and Newton is said to have said, as you remember, " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait...by little and little into a full and clear light." These are different, but certainly very wonderful, instances of what can be done by attention. But... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 414 σελίδες
...him fix his eyes and his mind on a single object; and Newton is said to have said, as you remember, "I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait...by little and little into a full and clear light." These are different, but certainly very wonderful, instances of what can be done by attention. But... | |
 | Edward P. Thompson - 1893 - 206 σελίδες
...the mathematical inventor, says in his own words in reference to the matter of originating : — " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open by little and little, into a full and clear light." This means a great deal, because he meditated so... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - 358 σελίδες
...let every one fulfil his own hest." Newton is reported to have described as his mode of working that "I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait...by little and little into a full and clear light." " The secret of genius," says Emerson, "is to suffer no fiction to exist for us ; to realize all that... | |
 | Henry Grattan Guinness - 1896 - 586 σελίδες
...generalization." 1 The mode by which Newton reached his discoveries was thus described by himself : " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, little by little, into a full and clear light." On another occasion, when some of his friends were... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1902 - 376 σελίδες
...fix his eyes and his mind on a single object ; and Newton is said to have said, as you remember, " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait...by little and little into a full and clear light." These are different, but certainly very wonderful, instances of what can be done by attention. But... | |
 | William Mathews - 1903 - 442 σελίδες
...thinking unto them." At another time, he said of his method of study, " I keep the subject continually before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly...by little and little into a full and clear light." Audubon, the ornithologist, who, when his precious drawings, that had cost him years of toil, were... | |
 | Association of Teachers of Mathematics in the Middle States and Maryland - 1905 - 92 σελίδες
...most important things a student can get out of an education. Newton said of his habits of study : " I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open by little and little into a full and clear light." Herbert Spencer's father said that the tendency... | |
 | William Ellsworth Hermance - 1912 - 478 σελίδες
...Newton was asked by what method he arrived at his discoveries, he answered, "By always thinking to them, I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, little by little, into a clear and full light." His conception of the law which would apply alike to... | |
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I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light. 
