 | John W. Gardner, Francesca Gardner Reese - 1996 - 278 páginas
...the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows. Alfred North Whitehead History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. . . . TH Huxley It is very easy to generate in a people a contempt for their ancient observances; no... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1997 - 398 páginas
...great work; and the general doctrine of evolution, to one side of which it gives expression, obtains, in the phenomena of biology, a firm base of operations...rash to anticipate that, in another twenty years, the new generation, educated under the influences of the present day, will be in danger of accepting the... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 páginas
...welcome. THOMAS HOBBES, (1588-1679) British philosopher. Leviathan, "A Review and Conclusion" (1651). 17 It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, (1825-1895) British biologist. "The Corning of Age of The Origin of Species,"... | |
 | Hans Jürgen Eysenck - 1997 - 368 páginas
...new fact, the new method, the new therapy wins — only to become the new orthodoxy. As Huxley said: 'It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.' The second consequence of orthodoxy's refusal to acknowledge new truths is a social one, and one that... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 páginas
...Physical Basis of Life 1871:140. -» From a lecture given in Edinburgh in 1868. History warns us. . .that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin...rash to anticipate that, in another twenty years, the new generation, educated under the influences of the present day, will be in danger of accepting the... | |
 | Jeffrey Kevin McKee - 2000 - 312 páginas
...selection. Natural selection has become an assumption rather than a theory. Huxley warned us against this: "it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions." 12 Thus, when Huxley wrote those words on the twenty-first anniversary of the publication of Origin... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 páginas
...and onward, who would keep abreast of truth. TH Huxley, in Science and Culture, indicates its course: "It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions." Its basic value is urged by Robert Bridges, in his Hymn of Nature: Gird on thy sword, O man, thy strength... | |
 | Harry F. Baker - 2008 - 292 páginas
...certain that there will be no more cases of new variant CJD. 4. Development of The Prion Hypothesis "// is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ' 's In 1960, Palmer published a paper in which he acknowledged the wholly unusual nature of the scrapie... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 páginas
...Joseph Cook "Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors." — Aldous Huxley "It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions." — Thomas Henry Huxley "If the world goes against truth, then Athanasius goes against the world."... | |
 | Frank Ryan - 2002 - 328 páginas
...aspects of human societal and psychosexual behavior. PART I Controversies The Struggle for Recognition It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. — THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, Science and Culture 1 THE ORIGINS OF LIFE We are so obsessed with finding... | |
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History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions ; and, as matters now stand, it is hardly rash to anticipate that, in another twenty years, the new generation, educated under the... 
