Symbols

Examples

• It is only by the use of words as symbols that scientific thought is possible. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• There are names, and Christian symbols, and prayers, or sentences expressive of Christian hopes, carved upon nearly every sarcophagus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• These were but the outward and visible symbols of his westering tendencies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• 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. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• We move amidst generalities and symbols . Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Here are the symbols. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• 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. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The symbols are thus made by deviations from the straight line, of different lengths and of varied combinations. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• A group of symbols, such as this, expressing a molecule of a compound is called a _formula_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• 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. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It was considered a great advantage of this telegraph at the time, that it exhibited actual letters of the alphabet, instead of symbols. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• They arrest growth on a low plane, the plane of specific physical symbols. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But in an advanced culture much which has to be learned is stored in symbols. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The pupil learns symbols without the key to their meaning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• What, then, would it avail the reader to know their names, or the evanescent symbols of their martial rank! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• 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. Plato. The Republic.
• 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. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The annexed diagram represents the symbols for the whole alphabet. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• 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. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Emphasis upon symbols and institutions tends to divert perception from the direct growth of experience in richness of meaning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The recording telegraph instruments hitherto noticed impress on the paper only hieroglyphical symbols, which require long practice to decipher readily. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• 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. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• By another telegraph of his invention the symbols where marked upon paper by small tubes holding ink, fixed to the needles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• According to Froebel, the actuating force is the presentation of symbols, largely mathematical, corresponding to the essential traits of the Absolute. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• 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. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Knitted, in her own stitches and her own symbols, it will always be as plain to her as the sun. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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