 | Zoology - 1921 - 472 pages
...think that the mind of a man of science must be constituted differently from that of his fellowmen; but if you will not be frightened by terms, you will...yourselves every day and every -hour of your lives. . . . "A very trivial circumstance will serve to exemplify this. Suppose you go into a fruiterer's... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution - 1863 - 186 pages
...chemist in performing a difficult and complex analysis by means of his balance and finely-graduated weights. It is not that the action' of the scales...hero express unbounded delight on being told that he had been talking prose during the whole of his life. In the same way, I trust, that you will take comfort,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution - 1863 - 170 pages
...chemist in performing a difficult and complex analysis by means of his balance and finely-graduated weights. It is not that the action of the scales in...hero express unbounded delight on being told that he had been talking prose during the whole of his life. 'In the same way, I trust, that you will take... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution - 1863 - 176 pages
...think that the mind of a man of science must be constituted differently from that of his fellow-men ; but if you will not be frightened by terms, you will...hero express unbounded delight on being told that he had been talking prose during the whole of his life. In the same way, I trust, that you will take comfort,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1877 - 166 pages
...think that the mind of a man of science must be constituted differently from that of his fellow-men ; but if you will not be frightened by terms, you will...your lives. There is a well-known incident in one of Moliore's plays, where the author makes the hero express unbounded delight on being told that he had... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Automatism - 1886 - 354 pages
...that of his fellow-men ; hut if you will nut be frightened by terms, you will discover that you aie quite wrong, and that all these terrible apparatus...hero express unbounded delight on being told that he had been talking prose during the whole of h'n life. In the same way, 1 trust that you will take comfort,... | |
 | Salem Wilder - Evolution (Biology) - 1886 - 368 pages
...think that the mind of a man of science must be constituted differently from that of his fellow-men ; but if you will not be frightened by terms you will...yourselves every day and every hour of your lives." " Probably there is not one here to-night who has not in the course of the day had occasion to set... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Automatism - 1886 - 350 pages
...fellow-men ; but if you will not be frightened by terms, you will discover that you are quite wrong, aud that all these terrible apparatus are being used by yourselves every day aud every hour of your 'lives. There is a well-known incident in one of Moliere's plays, where the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution - 1894 - 504 pages
...their construction or manner of working ; but the beam of one is set on an infinitely finer axis tluiu the other, and of course turns by the addition of...hero express unbounded delight on being told that he had been talking prose during the whole of his life. In the same way, I trust, that you will take comfort,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Education - 1909 - 190 pages
...example. You have all heard it repeated, I dare say, that men of science work by means of bduction and deduction, and that by the help of these operations,...hero express unbounded delight on being told that he had been talking prose during the whole of his life. In the same way, I trust, that you will take comfort,... | |
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... up hypotheses and theories. And it is imagined by many that the operations of the common mind can be by no means compared with these processes and that they have to be acquired by a sort of special apprenticeship to the craft. To hear all these large... 
