 History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions...  Nature - Síða xxi breytti - 1880Heildartexta - Um bókina
 | John O'Shaughnessy - 1992 - 398 síður
...various research traditions, it is tempting to agree with TH Huxley's reminder that history warns us that it is the customary fate of new "truths" to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. It is a temptation to be resisted, for it would suggest nothing substantive has been achieved beyond... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 síður
...tortured results. — Harvey R. Scrkow, ruling that the Baby M surrogacy contract was a valid contract It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. — Thomas Henry Huxley One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore... | |
 | Julia Vitullo-Martin, J. Robert Moskin - 1994 - 402 síður
...RNN,S comment about Mark Twain (quoted by David McCullough, Truman, 1992, p. 978) "History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions." TH HUXLEY (The Coming of Age, 1880) "Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy... | |
 | American Microscopical Society - 1912 - 386 síður
...blank verse. In conclusion, let me quote Huxley, from an address written in 1880: "History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstit : ons; and, as matters now stand, it is hardly rash to anticipate that in another twenty... | |
 | Nathaniel J. Pallone, James J. Hennessey - 1995 - 204 síður
...of Age of the Origin of Species, published in 1880, Thomas Henry Huxley made the cogent statement: "It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions." Psychoanalysis too began as a heresy. But a century after its formulation the question no longer is... | |
 | Judd Marmor - 1995 - 758 síður
...Inhibition. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1958. 14 Family Development JOAN J. ZILBACH It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions TH HUXLEY It follows from the nature of the facts which form the material of psychoanalysis that we... | |
 | John W. Gardner, Francesca Gardner Reese - 1996 - 278 síður
...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 síður
...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 síður
...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... | |
 | Jeffrey Kevin McKee - 2000 - 312 síður
...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... | |
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