 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
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - 1905 - 570 pages
...a contribution to the subject. In dealing with it in the future remember what Huxley says: 'Let us sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every pre-conceived notion, and to follow humbly wherever Nature may lead.'" The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal regards it... | |
 | George E. Wright - 1920 - 164 pages
...intolerance to drive obviously square pegs into obviously round holes. Huxley's words are apposite : " Sit down before fact as a little child. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, and follow humbly wherever, and to whatsoever abyss Nature leads." CHAPTER II TELEPATHY THERE are several... | |
 | Janet Elizabeth Courtney - 1920 - 584 pages
...would. Measured by thus standard, what b«-comes of the doctrine of immortality ? . . . Science teems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which i» cmtxxlicd in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of (»od. Sit down before... | |
 | 1920 - 880 pages
...development, we can make little progress unless we work and think in the spirit of Huxley who said " Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up any preconceived notion, follow humbly wherein and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you will learn... | |
 | Louis Faugères Bishop - 1920 - 484 pages
...CABDIOLOQY AND IN PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION THIS BOOK IS HOPEFULLY DEDICATED 97060 "Sit down before a fact as a little child; be prepared to give up every preconceived no tion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. '... | |
 | Willard Learoyd Sperry - 1921 - 200 pages
...nobility are almost unequaled in the last century. At one point in these letters Huxley says: "Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest...entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and... | |
 | Sherwood Eddy - 1922 - 248 pages
...ambition and yield himself in complete surrender to seek God's will for his life. Huxley wrote, "Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest...conception of entire surrender to the will of God." William James said: "Self-surrender has always been and must always be regarded as the vital turning... | |
 | Henry Robert Harrower - 1922 - 168 pages
...we accomplish our advances. As the deathless Thomas Huxley once said, "Sit down before a fact like a little child; be prepared to give up every preconceived notion; follow it wherever and to whatever abysses it may lead you —or you shall learn nothing." Or as his equally... | |
 | William Preston Hill - 1922 - 102 pages
...Ave., St. Louis, Mo. The great English scientist, Thomas Huxley, said: "Sit down before a fact like a little child; be prepared to give up every preconceived notion; follow it wherever or to whatever it may lead you — or you shall learn nothing." CHAPTER L KARL MARX, THE... | |
 | 1922 - 334 pages
...contradict them." And, too, we must bear in mind that Thomas Huxley once said, "Sit down before a fact like a little child; be prepared to give up every preconceived notion; follow it wherever and whatever abysses it may lead you — or you shall learn nothing." How appropriate the... | |
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