 The impregnable position of science may be described in a few words. We claim, and we shall wrest from theology, the entire domain of cosmological theory. All schemes and systems which thus infringe upon the domain of science must, in so far as they do...  Collected Papers of Sir James Dewar... - Page 759by James Dewar - 1927 - 1489 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1903 - 1176 pages
...Just because he had done this, because he had, as it were, mapped out the boundaries between whr.t is knowable though not yet known and what must remain...conceded. Tyndall's dictum, ' Every system must be pliistic to the extent that the growth of knowledge demands,' struck a note that was too often absent... | |
 | 1903 - 848 pages
...may be well to quote the whole passage. The impregnable position of science may be described in a few words. We claim, and we shall wrest, from theology the entire domain of cosmological theory. All schemes and systems which thus infringe upon the domain of science must, in so far as they do this,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1876 - 656 pages
...another conflict with oar broken foe ? The impregnable position of science may be described in a few words. We claim, and we shall wrest from theology, the entire domain of cosmological theory. All schemes and systems which thus infringe upon the domain of science must, in so far as they do this,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1876 - 816 pages
...enunciate in Belfast. " The impregnable position of Science," I there say, " may be stated in a few words. We claim, and we shall wrest from Theology, the entire domain of cosmological theory." Thus Theology, so far as it is represented by Mr. Martineau, and Science, so far as I understand it,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1876 - 706 pages
...enunciate in Belfast. ' The impregnable position of Science,' I there say, ' may be stated in a few words. We claim, and we shall wrest from Theology, the entire domain of Cosmological theory.' Thus Theology, so far as it is represented by Mr. Martineau, and Science, so far as I understand it,... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1876 - 688 pages
...enunciate in Belfast. "The impregnable position of Science," I there say, " may be stated in a few words. We claim, and we shall wrest from Theology, the entire domain of cosmological theory." Thus Theology, so far as it is represented by Mr. Martineau, and Science, so far as I understand it,... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1877 - 696 pages
...of nineteenth century science, says, "... the impregnable position of science may be stated in a few words : we claim, and we shall wrest from theology, the entire domain of cosmological theory " J — the end is not difficult to foresee. Centuries of subjection have not quite congealed the life-blood... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1877 - 688 pages
...of nineteenth century science, says, "... the impregnable position of science may be stated in a few words : we claim, and we shall wrest from theology, the entire domain of cosmological theory " J — the end is not difficult to foresee. Centuries of subjection have not quite congealed the life-blood... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1878 - 196 pages
...Science," says one of our latest and most celebrated scientific teachers, " may be stated in a few words. We claim and we shall wrest from theology the entire domain of cosmological theory." The earliest claim and the earliest aim of science was identical with this, its latest. The same words... | |
 | Timothy Harley - 1885 - 326 pages
...of science, Dr. John Tyndall says : " The impregnable position of science may be described in a few words. We claim, and we shall wrest from Theology, the entire domain of cosmological theory."423 We wish the eloquent professor all success. It was not the spirit of primitive Christianity,... | |
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