 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1908 - 770 Seiten
...because he cannot help it, because he would rather do such work than anything else in the world, and who therefore cares little for hampering traditions...working by himself with very simple instrumental means. But in speaking to the amateur I do not wish to deal with work that shall be satisfactory merely from... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1912 - 1068 Seiten
...because he cannot help it, because he would rather do such work than anything else in the world, and who therefore cares little for hampering traditions or for difficulties of any kind. The wholly satisfactory nature of this view is that it provides not only a definition, but an ambition,... | |
 | Evan McLennan - 1916 - 538 Seiten
...because he cannot help it, because he would rather do such work than anything else in the world, and who therefore cares little for hampering traditions, or for difficulties of any kind." —PROF. HH TURNER. J *Address Am. Assoc. Adv. bci., Dec., 1912. tC. FJ on Dr. A. Ogg's Address, South... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1908 - 916 Seiten
...because he can not help it, because he would rather do such work than anything else in the world, and who therefore cares little for hampering traditions...working, by himself with very simple instrumental means. But in speaking to the amateur I do not wish to deal with work that shall be satisfactory merely from... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1916 - 654 Seiten
...because he cannot help it. because he would rather do such work than anything else in the world, and who therefore cares little for hampering traditions or for difficulties of any kind." We should expect the man who wrote these words to be CO •< o characterized by an intense enthusiasm... | |
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... to-night, in purpose at least, to the amateur; but my definition of the amateur is perhaps a broader one than is generally accepted. According to my view, the amateur is the man who works in astronomy because he cannot help it, because he would rather... 