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" History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions... "
Science - Síða 15
breytti - 1880
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School & Society, Bindi 23

James McKeen Cattell, Will Carson Ryan, Raymond Walters - 1926 - 844 síður
...and so to exclude later arrivals, as they formerly had been kept back. Huxley says: History warns us that it is the customary fate of new 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...
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Biochemical Bulletin, Bindi 4-5

1915 - 754 síður
...with a world of difference in ultimate meaning is the observation of Huxley that " history warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions." Science, then, is not infallible and never can be. Equally lacking is the quality of infallibility...
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The Undergraduate and His College

Frederick Paul Keppel - 1917 - 408 síður
...Mrs. Parsons, " the most important if but little noticed social fact of our times." History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions, and the grandfather of the college Socialist of to-day probably spoke under his breath of being an evolutionist....
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Recollections and Reflections by a Woman of No Importance

Mrs. Stuart Menzies - 1922 - 296 síður
...may be quite different to anything we have seen or known, so there is no certainty. History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end as superstitions, and all have to be new at some time. After much thought I have come to the conclusion...
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The Modern World, Bindi 1

1926 - 228 síður
...and so to exclude later arrivals, as they formerly had been kept back. Huxley says: History warns us that it is the customary fate of new 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...
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The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 síður
...is. And nothing's truer than them." David Copperfield Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English novelist It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions. Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist I am convinced that the desire to formulate truths is...
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At the Edge of History and Passages about Earth: A Double Book

William Irwin Thompson - 1990 - 484 síður
...the idea rests as a certainty in the hands of a bureaucracy of pedants. As Thomas Huxley said: "It is customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions." If we look at the history of the idea of evolution, we see this process at work. First the eccentric...
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The Return of Scarcity: Strategies for an Economic Future

Herbert Cole Coombs - 1990 - 196 síður
...analysis developed in radically different situations. It is wise to recall Huxley's dictum: 'It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions'. Economists should be prepared to consider how far the new truths about the importance of output which...
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A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 síður
...what a lot of scientific work I could do. In Cyril Bibby TH llurliy 1959 (London: Watts) p 145 139 It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. The coming of Aye of the Origin of Species in Science and Culture xii 140 It looks as if the scientific,...
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Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation: Speciation and Morphogenesis

Lynn Margulis, René Fester - 1991 - 482 síður
...Transfer, and the Evolution of New Species: A Case Study in the Parasitic Red Algae Lynda J. Goff /i is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. Thomas Henry Huxley Horizontal (or lateral) gene transfer is a process by which genetic information...
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