Cargill Gilston Knott Quotes

Prof Cargill Gilston Knott FRS, FRSE LLD was a Scottish physicist and mathematician who was a pioneer in seismological research. He spent his early career in Japan. He later became a Fellow of the Royal Society, Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and President of the Scottish Meteorological Society. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. June 1856 – 26. October 1922
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“Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.”

Cargill Gilston Knott

[Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait: supplementing the two volumes of Scientific papers published in 1898 and 1900, Cambridge University Press, 1911, http://www.archive.org/details/lifescientificwo00knotrich, 1]

“What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.”

Cargill Gilston Knott

[Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait: supplementing the two volumes of Scientific papers published in 1898 and 1900, Cambridge University Press, 1911, 1-2]

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