 Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.  Bibliotheca Sacra - Page 31902Full view - About this book
 | Allan McLane Hamilton - 1883 - 388 pages
...rol'.NTWAY LIBRARY III I III I HC 1CJH IN MEMO RY OF ALBERT WARREN .STEARNS, JR Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared...preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads ; 01 you shall learn nothing. Thomas H. Huxley , ROCHFORT'S 27 Court Square Boston,... | |
 | 1906 - 412 pages
...be willing to be led, empty of theories, empty of preconceptions, by a fact. Says Huxley: "Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest...entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before the fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1901 - 1060 pages
...LIFE OF HUXLEY. By WILLIAM KEITH BROOKS, Professor of Zoology in the Johtw Hupkinx University. Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the greal truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit... | |
 | McGill University - 1903 - 440 pages
...believe that the great mysteries of existence will be laid open to me on other terms. Science seems to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great...entire surrender to the will of God, Sit down before the fact as a little child; be prepared to give up every preconceived notion; follow humbly wherever... | |
 | Percy Gardner - 1903 - 154 pages
...nature of man is greater than the intellectual; for veracity is the heart of morality."1 " Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied 1 Life and Letters of TH Huxley, ip 405. in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will... | |
 | 1904 - 778 pages
...he sets down the following, which embodies the true spirit of modern scientific research: "Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest...entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before the fact as a little child, be prepared to giro up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever... | |
 | Harry Leon Wilson - 1904 - 378 pages
...of him that humbleth himself shall pierce the clouds, I took for my motto this sentence from Huxley: 'Sit down before fact as a little child ; be prepared...humbly wherever and to whatever abysses Nature leads.' Presently, God willing, I shall be in communion with the See of Rome, where I feel that there is a... | |
 | Francis Greenwood Peabody - 1905 - 328 pages
...observers. See the noble letter of Huxley to Charles Kingsley, "Life and Letters," 1900, I, p. 219: "Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest...entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before the fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever... | |
 | Francis Greenwood Peabody, E. Müllenhoff - 1905 - 294 pages
...„Life and Letters," 1900, I, S. 219: „Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strengest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian...entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before the fact äs a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever... | |
 | Benjamin McKie Rastall - 1905 - 632 pages
...they may lead. Huxley's advice might well be the motto written over the gates of this institution: "Sit down before fact as a little child; be prepared to give up any pre-conceived notion; follow humbly wherein and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall... | |
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