 Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion,...  Discovery: Or, The Spirit and Service of Science - Page 44by Sir Richard Gregory - 1916 - 340 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1919 - 1066 pages
...to Charles Kingsley his confession of faith in the scientific method. 'Sit down humbly before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to leam content and peace... | |
 | Allan McLane Hamilton - 1883 - 388 pages
...rol'.NTWAY LIBRARY III I III I HC 1CJH IN MEMO RY OF ALBERT WARREN .STEARNS, JR Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared...preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads ; 01 you shall learn nothing. Thomas H. Huxley , ROCHFORT'S 27 Court Square... | |
 | William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1905 - 1454 pages
...found not only that to live is to learn, but that to learn is to live. Huxley said: "Sit down betore a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every...preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." Mrs. Hooker has done this. Not that she... | |
 | 1906 - 412 pages
...it — to be willing to be led, empty of theories, empty of preconceptions, by a fact. Says Huxley: "Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest...entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before the fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 586 pages
...aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonise with my aspirations. Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest...preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace... | |
 | Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 580 pages
...aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonise with my aspirations. Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest...preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1901 - 1060 pages
...THE LIFE OF HUXLEY. By WILLIAM KEITH BROOKS, Professor of Zoology in the Johtw Hupkinx University. Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the greal truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit... | |
 | George Albert Coe - 1902 - 456 pages
...intellectualism, the late Mr. Huxley, from whose "Life and Letters" the following passages have been extracted: "Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest...preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and. to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace... | |
 | 1902 - 830 pages
...would as willingly come to one conclusion as to another, the facts being decisive. "Science," he said, "seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest...preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1902 - 316 pages
...aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonise with my aspirations. . . . Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared...preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace... | |
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