 | Science - 1871 - 330 pages
...water. The hypothesis, therefore, must be classified under xenogenesis rather than under abiogenesis. Such as it was, I think it will appear to those who...propounded before the birth of modern chemistry and of the molern optical arts to be a most ingenious and suggestive speculation. But the great tragedy of science... | |
 | Science - 1871 - 316 pages
...water. The hypothesis, therefore, must be classified under xenogenesis rather than under abiogenesis. Such as it was, I think it will appear to those who...propounded before the birth of modern chemistry and of the mo tern optical arts to be a most ingenious and suggestive speculation. But the great tragedy of science... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1871 - 668 pages
...water. The hypothesis, therefore, must bo classified under Xenogeuesis rather than under Abiogeuesis. Such as it was, I think it will appear, to those who...remember that it was propounded before the birth of modem chemistry and of the modern optical arts, to be a most ingenious anil suggestive speculation.... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1871 - 720 pages
...water. The hypothesis therefore must be classified under Xenogenesis, rather than under Abiogenesis. Such as it was, I think it will appear, to those who will bo just enough to remember that it was propounded before the birth of modern chemistry and of the modern... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1871 - 714 pages
...water. The hypothesis therefore must be classified under Xenogenesis, rather than under Abiogenesis. Such as it was, I think it will appear, to those who wül be just enough to remember that it was propounded before the birth of modern chemistry and of... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Literary Criticism - 1873 - 428 pages
...water. The hypothesis therefore must be classified under Xenogenesis, rather than under Abiogenesis. Such as it was, I think it will appear, to those who...and suggestive speculation. But the great tragedy of Science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact—which is so constantly being enacted... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1880 - 408 pages
...water. The hypothesis therefore must be classified under Xenogenesis, rather than under Abiogenesis. Such as it was, I think it will appear, to those who...and suggestive speculation. But the great tragedy of Science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact—which is so constantly being enacted... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1897 - 926 pages
...still more irresistible force of ancient documents proved true. It was what Prof. Huxley has called " the great tragedy of science ; the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." A greater and more sudden blow never fell on the pride and self- sufficiency of man. Never was there... | |
 | Chemistry - 1910 - 470 pages
...they sometimes perform more active functions. Frequently they are responsible for what Huxley called " The Great Tragedy of Science,"— the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. I fear the radiometer has been guilty of more than one tragedy of this kind. But the whirligig of time... | |
 | Benjamin Orange Flower - Periodicals - 1912 - 630 pages
...fewest sins. The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing. The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. — Huxley — Aphorisms and Reflection.' WILLIAM MAILLV AMID the welter of new plays, with their widely... | |
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But the great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact... 
