Scientific Instrument Makers

Famous quotes containing the words scientific, instrument and/or makers:

“The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

“I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)

“All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)