| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 772 páginas
...assent we should reply, Take it if you can compel it. The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is...the Origin of Species were I merely to dwell upon the facts, undoubted and remarkable as they are, of its far-reaching influence and of the great following... | |
| American Microscopical Society - 1912 - 86 páginas
...you can compel it.' The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the spiritual world. A theory is a species of thinking and its right...its power of resisting extinction by its rivals." Honest Biologists will tell you today that Darwin's hypothesis has proved inadequate to explain all... | |
| James McKeen Cattell, Will Carson Ryan, Raymond Walters - 1926 - 844 páginas
...truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is...with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. One can lay contradictory ideas up in one's brain side by side like books on a shelf. But you can only... | |
| Oliver Elton - 1920 - 460 páginas
...threatened even the very life of the young creature. For some years it was undoubtedly warm work. ... A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to...with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. Huxley wrote thus at the height of his renown, and in_the press of his full and laborious life. He... | |
| Oliver Elton - 1920 - 470 páginas
...threatened even the very life of the young creature. For some years it was undoubtedly warm work. ... A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to...with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. Huxley wrote thus at the height of his renown, and in the ' press of his full and laborious life. He... | |
| 1926 - 228 páginas
...truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is...with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. One can lay contradictory ideas up in one's brain side by side like books on a shelf. Bui you can only... | |
| Leo K. Bustad - 1981 - 247 páginas
...I know of no evidence to support this premise. Perhaps TH Huxley (1888) was right when he said that a theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power to resist extinction by its rivals. In more recent times, Nathan Shock (1974), the grand old man of... | |
| Leo K. Bustad - 247 páginas
...I know of no evidence to support this premise. Perhaps TH Huxley (1888) was right when he said that a theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power to resist extinction by its rivals. In more recent times, Nathan Shock (1974), the grand old man of... | |
| I. Niiniluoto - 1984 - 294 páginas
...Darwinist TH Huxley expressed it in 1880 a follows: »The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is...its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.» ls This idea is in harmony with the hypothetico-deductive view of science which gradually gained popularity... | |
| Matthew H. Nitecki, Doris V. Nitecki - 1992 - 282 páginas
...assent we should reply, Take it if you can compel it. The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is...with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. (Huxley 1893:229) Recently, Popper (1974) has been interpreting (or reinterpreting) his position in... | |
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