John Tyndall

Physicist, 1820-1893

Cited as Tyndall. — 18 quotations

The aqueous vapor of the air.

The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees.

To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne.

Proofs of the most cogent description.

Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate.

Changes . . . concurrent with the visual changes in the eye.

A mass of partially consolidated mud.

The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance.

We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water.

I converge its rays to a focus of dazzling brilliancy.

Here you have one half of our dual truth.

The whole arrangement was surrounded by a hoarding, the space within which was divided into compartments by sheets of tin.

Desiring me to take shelter in his lee.

The smallpox is a particulate disease.

We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient glacier which brought the bowlder here.

These molecular blocks of salt are self-posited.

In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual sense diffused over the entire body.

They illustrate the method of nature, not the technic of a manlike Artificer.