Famous Quotes / William Whewell
5 Quotations by William Whewell
- 1. Every failure is a step to success.
- 2. Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution a ...
- 3. Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is acc ...
- 4. It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.
- 5. The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explai ...