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" We are now in a position to regard the study of evolution as that of a single great problem, beginning with the origin of the stars in the nebulae and culminating in those difficult and complex sciences that endeavor to account, not merely for the phenomena... "
The Study of Stellar Evolution: An Account of Some Recent Methods of ... - Page 3
by George Ellery Hale - 1908 - 252 pages
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A Short History of Science

William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - 1917 - 522 pages
...isolated facts that offer little of interest without the illumination of this governing principle. We are now in a position to regard the study of evolution...which control a society composed of human beings. As a complement to the preceding may be added the following from another specialist in planetary evolution...
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The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 17

John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1918 - 390 pages
...single great problem, beginning with the origin of the stars in the nebulae, and culminating in these difficult and complex sciences that endeavor to account,...of life, but for the laws which control a society of human beings." Excerpts, somewhat longer than the very numerous ones occurring in the body of the...
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A History of Modern Planetary Physics: Transmuted Past

Stephen G. Brush - 1996 - 150 pages
...sciences; he wrote, We are now in a position to regard the study of evolution as that of a single giant problem, beginning with the origin of the stars in...which control a society composed of human beings. (Hale 1908: 3) But the term "evolution" in astronomy is not limited to the specifically Darwinian process...
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Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 1, The ...

Allan Sandage, Louis Brown - 2004 - 672 pages
...maintained that it has occupied a more important position since Darwin published his great work.4' We are now in a position to regard the study of evolution...single problem must begin with a study of the sun. Although many will consider the last paragraph to be a stretch in tying the problem only to the Sun,...
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