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 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 420 pages
...letters to my home, and portions were sent to England whenever there was an opportunity. The above various special studies were, however, of no importance compared with the habit of energeticindustry and of concentrated attention to whatever I was engaged in, which I then acquired.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1891 - 592 pages
...letters to my home, and portions were sent to England whenever there was an opportunity. The above various special studies were, however, of no importance...I then acquired. Everything about which I thought 53 likely to see ; and this habit of mind was continued during the five years of the voyage. I feel... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 580 pages
...letters to my home, and portions were sent to England whenever there was an opportunity. The above various special studies were, however, of no importance...was made to bear directly on what I had seen or was THE VOYAGE. 53 likely to see ; and this habit of mind was continued during the five years of the voyage.... | |
 | Frank Cramer - Evolution - 1896 - 246 pages
...problems in the field. " The above various special studies were, however, of no importance," he said, "compared with the habit of energetic industry and...directly on what I had seen or was likely to see." He had problems constantly before him, and the time allowed for their solution was always limited by... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1897 - 598 pages
...England whenever there was an opportunity. The above various special studies were, however, ofTro^ : importance compared with the habit of Energetic industry...\ and of concentrated attention to whatever I was engaged"tn, which I then acquired. Everything about which I thought or read was made to bear directly... | |
 | Johannes Paulus Lotsy - Botany - 1906 - 412 pages
...anatomical knowledge, a great pile of MS. which I made during the voyage has proved almost useless The above various special studies were, however. of no importance...Everything about which I thought or read was made to bear dtrectly on what I had seen or was likely to see; and this habit of mind was continued during the five... | |
 | Johannes Paulus Lotsy - Botany - 1906 - 422 pages
...proved almost useless — — — Tlie above various special studies were. however, of 110 iniportance compared with the habit of energetic industry and...concentrated attention to whatever I was engaged in, whicli I then acquired. Everything about which I thought or read was made to bear directly on what... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1909 - 584 pages
...my powers of observation were improved, though they were always fairly developed. . . ." "The above various special studies were, however, of no importance...industry and of concentrated attention to whatever / was engaged in, which I then acquired. Everything about which I thought or read was made to bear... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant - Naturalists - 1916 - 352 pages
...this period may not inaptly be applied to both men : " Everything about which I thought or read wan made to bear directly on what I had seen, or was likely ti> see; aud this habit of mind was continued during the five yean of the voyage. I feel sure that... | |
 | Nannie Niemeyer - Child development - 1921 - 254 pages
...that the pleasure of observing and reasoning is a much greater one than that of skill or sport. . . . Everything about which I thought or read was made...seen or was likely to see ; and this habit of mind continued during the five years of the voyage.' ' As far as I can judge of myself, I worked from the... | |
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