 | 1911 - 706 σελίδες
...unexplored before me." When asked how he made his discoveries, he replied : " By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait...by little and little into a full and clear light." Commenting upon this somewhat modest remark Lodge says: "That is the way — quiet, steady, continuous... | |
 | Rutherford Aris, Howard Ted Davis, Roger H. Stuewer - 1983 - 355 σελίδες
...described his procedure, not with sole reference to the law of universal gravitation, in similar terms: "I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait...slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light."24 The two statements do seem to me to offer accurate descriptions of the process I have tried... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - 1983 - 934 σελίδες
...struggle rather than a tale of divine revelation. "I keep the subject constantly before me," he said, "and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light."88 In 1666, by dint of keeping subjects constantly before him, he saw the first dawnings open... | |
 | R. A. Ochse, R. Ochse - 1990 - 318 σελίδες
...(Westfall, 1983, p. 41) On another occasion he described the nature of his creative thinking by explaining I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait...by little and little, into a full and clear light. (Westfall, 1983, p. 41) Epilogue During the latter half of this century, and particularly the last... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 σελίδες
...Nature 22 October 1987 329, 772 33 [Asked how he made his discoveries] By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light. In Nature 4 September 1965 Norman Nicholson 191434 The toadstool... | |
 | Ake E. Andersson, N.E. Sahlin - 1996 - 168 σελίδες
...gravitation he replied: "By thinking on it continually". Another quotation along similar lines reads: "I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait...by little and little into a full and clear light". This quality of intense and sustained concentration has been acknowledged by many in the scientific... | |
 | R. W. Burns - 2000 - 568 σελίδες
...When Newton was once asked how he made his discoveries, he replied: 'By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light'. Similarly, single-mindedness of thought and purpose typified... | |
 | Henry Wolkowicz, Romesh Saigal, Lieven Vandenberghe - 2000 - 694 σελίδες
...Isaac (1642-1727) b. Woolsthorpe, England On how he made discoveries By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light. Newton, Isaac (1642-1727) b. Woolsthorpe, England 8 SYMMETRIC... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2001 - 368 σελίδες
...revelation."31 Newton himself invoked the metaphor of the room slowly illuminated from above when he said: "I keep the subject constantly before me and wait...slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light."32 On a larger scale, the Newton story brings us back to the definition of genius as an individual... | |
 | William H. Cropper - 2004 - 518 σελίδες
...equals the area A2. Halley's Reward "I keep [a] subject constantly before me," Newton once remarked, "and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light." Kepler's laws had been on Newton's mind since his student days. In "first dawnings" he had found connections... | |
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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. 
