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Síđa 275 - In July opened first note-book on Transmutation of Species. Had been greatly struck from about the month of previous March on character of South American fossils, and species on Galapagos Archipelago. These facts (especially latter), origin of all my views...
Síđa 112 - The teleological and the mechanical views of nature are not, necessarily, mutually exclusive. On the contrary, the more purely a mechanist the speculator is, the more firmly does he assume a primordial molecular arrangement of which all the phenomena of the universe...
Síđa 229 - History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as Heresies and to end as superstitions...
Síđa 247 - The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die, and you to live. Which is better, God only knows.
Síđa 110 - That proposition is, that the whole world, living and not living, -in) the result of the mutual interaction, according to definite laws, of the forces possessed by the molecules of which the primitive nebulosity of the universe was composed.
Síđa 30 - ... proportions in so artistic a way that, after watching the process hour by hour, one is almost involuntarily possessed by the notion that some more subtle aid to vision than an achromatic would show the hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skilful manipulation to perfect his work.
Síđa 87 - Every detail of structure in every living creature (making some little allowance for the direct action of physical conditions) may be viewed, either as having been of special use to some ancestral form, or as being now of special use to the descendants of this form — either directly, or indirectly through the complex laws of growth...
Síđa 162 - ... be said to be the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it. And if so, it must be true, in the same sense and to the same extent, that the thoughts to which I am now giving utterance, and your thoughts regarding them, are the expression- of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena.
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| Titill | Darwiniana: Essays Útgáfa 2 of Collected Essays, Thomas Henry Huxley Bindi 2 of Collected essays by T.H. Huxley Bindi 2 of Essays, Thomas Henry Huxley Eversley series Bindi 2 of Oxford collected essays |
| Höfundur | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Edition | 2 |
| Útgefandi | Appleton, 1894 |
| Original from | Háskólinn í Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 maí 2007 |
| Length | 475 síđur |
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