So that in science, where the evidence of an hypothesis is subjected to the most rigid examination, we may rightly pursue the same course. You may have hypotheses and hypotheses. A man may say, if he likes, that the moon is made of green cheese : that... The Popular Science Monthly - Page 5581872Full view - About this book
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1863 - 176 pages
...may say, if he likes, that the moon is made of green cheese : that is a hypothesis. But another man, who has devoted a great deal of time and attention to the subject, and availed himself of the most powerful telescopes and the results of the observations of... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1863 - 170 pages
...may say, if he likes, that the moon is made of green cheese : that is an hypothesis. But another man, who has devoted a great deal of time and attention to the subject, and availed himself of the most powerful telescopes and the results of the observations of... | |
| Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 392 pages
...may say, if he likes, that the moon is made of green cheese ; that is a hypothesis. But another man, who has devoted a great deal of time and attention to the subject, and availed himself of the most powerful telescopes and the results of the observations of... | |
| 1874 - 816 pages
...unexpectedly secured. Dr. Carpenter says: "A very curious example of this was mentioned to me a few days ago by Mr. Wenham, a gentleman who has devoted a great...a plan which would suggest itself to any optician; it involved the use of three prisms, giving a number of reflections, and every one of these reflections... | |
| 1876 - 802 pages
...may say, if he like, that the moon is made of green cheese ; that is an hypothesis. But another man, who has devoted a great deal of time and attention to the subject, and availed himself of the most powerful telescopes, and the results of the observations of... | |
| 1877 - 602 pages
...city, where it has come into very general use, it is prepared alone from cow's milk, by Dr. Brush, who has devoted a great deal of time and attention to the subject, and is at present giving his whole time to its manufacture. His plan consists in bringing... | |
| Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - 1889 - 408 pages
...may say, if he likes, that the moon is made of green cheese: that is an hypothesis. But another man, who has devoted a great deal of time and attention to the subject, and availed himself of the most powerful telescopes, and the results of the observations of... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 504 pages
...may say, if he likes, that the moon is made of green cheese : that is an hypothesis. But another man, who has devoted a great deal of time and attention to the subject, and availed himself of the most powerful telescopes and the results of the observations of... | |
| 1906 - 1270 pages
...Improvement. The other directors, especially Judge Roy, have, without charge or compensation, given a great deal of time and attention to the Improvement of the cemetery grounds. They have erected waterworks, planted trees and shrubbery, had the grounds properly... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 190 pages
...may say, if he likes, that the moon is made of green cheese : that is an hypothesis. But another man, who has devoted a great deal of time and attention to the subject, and availed himself of the most powerful telescopes and the results of the observations of... | |
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