It is only by the use of words as symbols that scientific thought is possible. 李贝.西洋科学史.
There are names, and Christian symbols, and prayers, or sentences expressive of Christian hopes, carved upon nearly every sarcophagus. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
These were but the outward and visible symbols of his westering tendencies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
In 1837 Dalton wrote: Berzelius's symbols are horrifying: a young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself a cquainted with them. 李贝.西洋科学史.
We move amidst generalities and symbols . 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
Here are the symbols. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
For words, theories, symbols, slogans, abstractions of all kinds are nothing but the porous vessels into which life flows, is contained for a time, and then passes through. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
The symbols are thus made by deviations from the straight line, of different lengths and of varied combinations. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
A group of symbols, such as this, expressing a molecule of a compound is called a _formula_. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
Mr. Morse's telegraph is a recording instrument, that embosses the symbols upon paper, with a point pressed down upon it by an electro-magnet. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
It was considered a great advantage of this telegraph at the time, that it exhibited actual letters of the alphabet, instead of symbols. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
They arrest growth on a low plane, the plane of specific physical symbols. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
But in an advanced culture much which has to be learned is stored in symbols. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
The pupil learns symbols without the key to their meaning. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
What, then, would it avail the reader to know their names, or the evanescent symbols of their martial rank! 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
The imperfection, or rather the higher and more elastic nature of language, does not allow words to have the precision of numbers or of symbols. 柏拉图.理想国.
He is not merely wearing the symbols of these gods as a devout Babylonian might wear the symbols of Bel-Marduk; he is these three gods in one. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The annexed diagram represents the symbols for the whole alphabet. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
The symbols that form the alphabet consist of combinations of short and long strokes, which by their repetitions and variations, are made to stand for different letters. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
Emphasis upon symbols and institutions tends to divert perception from the direct growth of experience in richness of meaning. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
The recording telegraph instruments hitherto noticed impress on the paper only hieroglyphical symbols, which require long practice to decipher readily. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
Galton attributed the difference to the scientist's habits of highly generalized and abstract thought, especially when the steps of reasoning are carried on by words [employed] as symbols. 李贝.西洋科学史.
By another telegraph of his invention the symbols where marked upon paper by small tubes holding ink, fixed to the needles. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
According to Froebel, the actuating force is the presentation of symbols, largely mathematical, corresponding to the essential traits of the Absolute. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
The most important of these was made by Mr. Bain, who in 1847 applied for this purpose the method of impressing the symbols on paper by electro-chemical decomposition. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
Knitted, in her own stitches and her own symbols, it will always be as plain to her as the sun. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.