... have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own, we must regard it as probable in the highest degree that there are countless seed-bearing meteoric stones moving about through space. If at the present instant no life existed upon... Nature - Стр. 268редактор(ы): - 1871Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Joseph Irving - 1876 - Страниц: 180
...space. If at the present instant no life existed upon this earth, one such stone falling upon it might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its...hypothesis, but I believe them to be all answerable. The hypothesis that life originated on this earth through moss-grown fragments from the ruins of another... | |
| Alfred Barry (bp. of Sydney.) - 1877 - Страниц: 348
...seed-bearing meteoric stones moving through space. . . . One such stone falling on the earth might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its becoming covered with vegetation. . . . The hypothesis that life originated on this earth through moss-grown fragments from the remains... | |
| 1878 - Страниц: 616
...upon it might lead to ite becoming covered with vegetation. " I am fully conscious," he concludes, " of the many scientific objections which may be urged...hypothesis, but I believe them to be all answerable. . . . The hypothesis that life originated on this earth through moss-grown fragments from the ruins... | |
| Friedrich Albert Lange - 1881 - Страниц: 390
...space. If at the present instant no life existed upon this earth, one such stone falling upon it might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its becoming covered with vegetation." Zollner tries to show that this hypothesis is unscientific ; first of all formally, because it only... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1894 - Страниц: 624
...space. If at the present instant no life existed upon this Earth, one such stone falling upon it might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its...them on the present occasion. The hypothesis that [some] life [has actually] originated on this Earth through moss-grown fragments from the ruins of... | |
| Paul Carus - 1908 - Страниц: 786
...meteoric stones moving through space. If at the present instant no life existed upon this earth, it might lead to its becoming covered with vegetation. I am...objections which may be urged against this hypothesis, and I have already tfaxed your patience too severely to allow me to think of discussing any of them... | |
| Svante Arrhenius - 1908 - Страниц: 258
...space. If at the present instant no life existed upon this earth, one such stone falling upon it might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its...with vegetation. I am fully conscious of the many objections which may be urged against this hypothesis. I will not tax your patience further by discussing... | |
| Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - Страниц: 766
...space. If at the present instant no life existed upon this Earth, one such stone falling upon it might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its...urged against this hypothesis, but I believe them all to be answerable. . . . The hypothesis that [some]1 life [has actually] originated on this Earth... | |
| Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - Страниц: 770
...space. If at the present instant no life existed upon this Earth, one such stone falling upon it might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its...urged against this hypothesis, but I believe them all to be answerable. . . . The hypothesis that [some]1 life [has actually] originated on this Earth... | |
| Alvar Ellegård - 1990 - Страниц: 400
...space. If at the present instant no life existed upon this Earth, one such stone falling upon it might by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its becoming covered with vegetation."117) This, said Thomson, "may seem wild and visionary; all I maintain is that it is not... | |
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