"Untechnical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thinking that an untechnical statement of the views current among the leaders of biological science might be interesting to the general public, I gave a lecture embodying them in Edinburgh. Those who have not made the mistake of attempting to approach ...
— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley
... in portal, window, vaulting or tympanum is round; wherever the arcaded form is used,—always round. With this suggestion of outline, and the universal principles of the style, simplicity and dignity and absence of great ornamentation, the untechnical traveller may distinguish the Romanesque of the South, and if he be akin to the traveller who tells these Cathedral tales, the interest and fascination which the old architecture awakes, will lead him to discover for himself the many differences ...
— Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 • Elise Whitlock Rose
... course of training running parallel with a course in debating or other original speaking. It has been prepared with a view also to that large number who want to speak, or have to speak, but cannot have the advantage of a teacher. Much is therefore said in the way of caution, and untechnical ...
— Public Speaking • Irvah Lester Winter
... frank, untechnical discussion of each great writer's work as a whole, and a critical estimate of his relative place and ...
— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long
... ago, in a book entitled "The Study of Stellar Evolution" (University of Chicago Press, 1908), I attempted to give in untechnical language an account of some modern methods of astrophysical research. This book is now out of print, and the rapid progress of science has left it completely out of date. As I have found no opportunity to prepare a new edition, or to write another book of similar purpose, I have adopted the ...
— The New Heavens • George Ellery Hale |
