The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley, Tom 3

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Macmillan and Company, limited, 1901
 

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Strona 609 - At the present day, however, we even more commonly use another name for this peculiar liquid — namely, "alcohol," and its origin is not less singular. The Dutch physician, Van Helmont, lived in the latter part of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century — in the transition period between alchemy and chemistry — and was rather more alchemist than chemist. Appended to his "Opera Omnia...
Strona 580 - But the great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact...
Strona 423 - Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness ; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.
Strona 413 - To assume that the evidence of the beginning, or end, of so vast a scheme lies within the reach of our philosophical inquiries, or even of our speculations, appears to be inconsistent with a just estimate of the relations which subsist between the finite powers of man and the attributes of an infinite and eternal Being.
Strona 527 - The significance of persistent types, and of the small amount of change which has taken place even in those forms which can be shown to have been modified, becomes greater and greater in my eyes, the longer I occupy myself with the biology of the past. Consider how long a time has elapsed since the Miocene epoch. Yet, at that time there is reason to believe that every important group in every order of the Mammalia was represented. Even the comparatively scanty Eocene fauna yields examples of the...
Strona 412 - This is the view in which we are now to examine the globe ; to see if there be, in the constitution of this world, a reproductive operation, by which a ruined constitution may be again repaired, and a duration or stability thus procured to the machine, considered as a world sustaining plants and animals"*.
Strona 586 - I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity...
Strona 420 - Huxley in 1869, when for a second time, after a seven years' interval, he was president of the Society. " I do not suppose that at the present day any geologist would be found ...to deny that the rapidity of the rotation of the earth may be diminishing, that the sun may be waxing dim, or that the earth itself may be cooling. Most of us, I suspect, are Gallios, ' who care for none of these things...
Strona 594 - This is the return of killed, the maimed and disabled being left out of sight. Why, it is to be hoped that the list of killed in the present bloodiest of all wars will not amount to more than this...
Strona 408 - A great reform in geological speculation seems now to have become necessary." " It is quite certain that a great mistake has been made— that British popular geology at the present time is in direct opposition to the principles of Natural Philosophy.

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