 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
...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 manner the...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... | |
 | Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 580 pages
...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 manner the...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... | |
 | George Albert Coe - 1902 - 458 pages
...Huxley, from whose "Life and Letters" the following passages have been extracted: "Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the...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
...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 manner the...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... | |
 | Percy Gardner - 1903 - 154 pages
...highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied 1 Life and Letters of TH Huxley, ip 405. in the Christian conception of entire surrender to...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... | |
 | McGill University - 1903 - 440 pages
...believe that the great mysteries of existence will be laid open to me on other terms. Science seems to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great...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... | |
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