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| An Engineering Student's Notes, Technical, Philosophical and Otherwise by John Richards |
JMSmith talks about clams and education and included this from the above book:
“I am beginning to think that water-craft, that is, human craft on the water, is much the same as it is in animals. It is absorbed in an insensible way throughout a term of years, or a lifetime, and is not a specific thing to be learned, like building houses or shoeing horses. A kind of second nature. Put a water-skilled man on a steamer, a ship, in a boat, on a raft, or a life buoy, it is all the same. He knows the traits and trends of the water, and how to keep on the surface of it. Geometry, dynamics, mechanics, or even a knowledge of Greek and Hebrew, will do him no more good than a heathen’s talisman, unless he has been trained to the water, on and in the water.” - John Richards, An Engineering Student’s Notes, Technical, Philosophical and Otherwise (San Francisco: Industrial Publishing, 1904), p. 155.
2 comments:
I have a book, I have no idea where it is, written by a world reknown American physicist.
The book is mostly prose and non-rhyming poetry.
It is remarkable how this man wove together the sciences and philosophical thought.
His name is Loren something.
No, not Loren Acton. Older than Acton.
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