 | James Dwight Dana - 1890 - 1258 pages
...betfet knowledge of the nature and relations of compounds ; and philosophy has thrown new light on the principles of classification. To change is always...of science, is worse ; it is persistence in error ; *nd, therefore, notwithstanding the former adoption of what has been called the Natural History System,... | |
 | Newton Horace Winchell - 1896 - 474 pages
...applies equally well here. In the preface to the third edition of his mineralogy, in 1850, he says that "To change is always seeming fickleness. But not to...of science is worse; it is persistence in error." The first edition of the tieulutin (1862) clearly teaches the doctrine of special creation for the... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman - 1899 - 456 pages
...here was so characteristic of the author's attitude of mind to scientific truth in general. " ' . . . To change is always seeming fickleness. But not to...notwithstanding the former adoption of what has been called the naturalhistory system, and the pledge to its support given by the author, in supplying it with a Latin... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1910 - 532 pages
...classification and the Latin binomial nomenclature of the former editions, he wrote in the preface: "To change is always seeming fickleness. But not to...of science is worse; it is persistence in error." He said to me, in speaking of the changes introduced in the third edition of the Manual of Geology,... | |
 | Geological Society of America - 1913 - 850 pages
...classification and the I^atin binomial nomenclature of the former editions, he wrote in the preface : "To change is always seeming fickleness. But not to...of science is worse; it is persistence in error." He said to me. in speaking of the changes introduced in the third edition of the "Manual of Geology"... | |
 | James Dwight Dana, Edward Salisbury Dana - 1920 - 1526 pages
...printed at the expense of the author. relations of compounds; and philosophy has thrown new light on the principles of classification. To change is always...advance of science is worse; it is persistence in error; und, therefore, notwithstanding the former adoption of what has been called the Natural History System,... | |
 | J. Lima-de-Faria - 2001 - 162 pages
...There is always a strong reaction against new ideas. Dana in 1850 wrote in the preface to his book: ，To change is always seeming fickleness. But not...advance of science is worse; it is persistence in error.一， One of the arguments against the chemical classification was the fact that it grouped... | |
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To change is always seeming fickleness. But not to change with the advance of science is worse; it is persistence in error. 