 | Edward P. Thompson - Inventions - 1893 - 206 pages
...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 - Conduct of life - 1894 - 358 pages
...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 till the...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... | |
 | John Fiske - Science writers - 1894 - 632 pages
...problem to be solved. Sir Isaac Newton thus discloses the secret of his immortal discoveries : " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open, by little and little, into a full light." But corporeal agency in processes of thought has an aspect... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1902 - 376 pages
...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 till the...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 - Success - 1903 - 442 pages
...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... | |
 | Science - 1911 - 706 pages
...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 till the...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 - Science - 1983 - 355 pages
...his procedure, not with sole reference to the law of universal gravitation, in similar terms: "I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait 'till the...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1983 - 934 pages
...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 - Psychology - 1990 - 318 pages
...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 till the...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... | |
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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. 
