 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - Страниц: 540
...Thomson said — "The essence of science, as is well illustrated by astronomy and cosmical physics, consists in inferring antecedent conditions, and anticipating...successfully acting up to this ideal are prodigious. Our code of biological law is an expression of our ignorance as well as of our knowledge." And again,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - Страниц: 546
...Thomson said — "The essence of science, as is well illustrated by astronomy and cosmical physics, consists in inferring antecedent conditions, and anticipating...successfully acting up to this ideal are prodigious. Our code of biological law is an expression of our ignorance as well as of our knowledge." And again,... | |
 | 1871 - Страниц: 868
...LIFE ox THE PLANET. The essence of science, as is well illustrated by astronomy and cosmical physics, consists in inferring antecedent conditions, and anticipating...biology the difficulties of successfully acting up to [his ideal are prodigious. The earnest naturalists of the present day are, however, not appalled or... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - Страниц: 662
...these phenomena. The essence of science, as is well illustrated by astronomy and cosmical physics, consists in inferring antecedent conditions, and anticipating future evolutions, from phenomena which have actuilly come under observation. In biology, the difficulties of successfully acting up to this ideal... | |
 | 1872 - Страниц: 318
...arrangement, as of a flock of birds, or the edge of a cloud of tobacco smoke. The essence of science consists in inferring antecedent conditions and anticipating...naturalists of the present day are, however, not appalled by them, and are struggling to pass out of the mere " natural history stage " of their study and to... | |
 | 1872 - Страниц: 520
...discourse to which many of you must have listened last evening with admiration. Sir Wm. Thomson said—" The essence of science, as is well illustrated by...have actually come under observation. In biology, the difficulty of successfully acting up to this ideal are prodigious. Our code of biological law is an... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - Страниц: 716
...these phenomena. The essence of science, as is well illustrated by astronomy and cosmical physics, consists in inferring antecedent conditions, and anticipating...difficulties of successfully acting up to this ideal arc prodigious. The earnest naturalists of the present day are, however, not appalled or paralyzed... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - Страниц: 728
...these phenomena. Tho essence of science, as is well illustrated by astronomy and cosmical physics, consists in inferring antecedent conditions, and anticipating...which have actually come under observation. In biology tho difficulties of successfully acting up to this ideal are prodigious. The earnest naturalists of... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - 1875 - Страниц: 436
...to acknowledge any such arbitrary limitations. "The essence of science," says Sir William Thomson, "consists in inferring antecedent conditions, and...phenomena which have actually come under observation." 2 If this be the essence of science, then we presume that it is competent to throw some. light on the... | |
 | Charles Anderson Read - 1880 - Страниц: 394
...RRITISH ASSOCIATION.) The essence of science, as is well illustrated by astronomy and cosmical physics, consists in inferring antecedent conditions, and anticipating...struggling boldly and laboriously to pass out of the mere "natural history stage" of their study, and bring zoology within the range of natural philosophy.... | |
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The essence of science, as is well illustrated by astronomy and cosmical physics, consists in inferring antecedent conditions, and anticipating future evolutions, from phenomena which have actually come under observation. 
