 False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness...  Report of the Annual Meeting - Page 687by British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1895Full view - About this book
 | 1871 - 606 pages
...they often long endure ; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towaids error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.' — Descent of Man,... | |
 | 1871
...are by no means convinced that we have seen. There may be some consolation in the statement that " False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure ; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 470 pages
...of evolution would throw light on some of the more complex problems in the natural history of man. False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a salutary... | |
 | George Harris - 1876 - 462 pages
...it is pronounced, but frequently appears at variance with fact, although it becomes developed on 1 " False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure ; hut false -views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1876 - 824 pages
...us to facts; it is often through the doubtful or the false that we attain the truth; as Darwin says: "False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a salutary... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1883 - 826 pages
...us to facts; it is often through the doubtful or the false that we attain the truth; as Darwin says: "False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a salutary... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1884 - 396 pages
...of evolution would throw light on some of the more complex problems in the natural history of man. False facts are highly injurious to the progress of...if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness ; and, when this is done, one path toward... | |
 | Sir William Roberts - 1885 - 122 pages
...words of Darwin. ' False facts,' he says, ' are highly injurious to the progress of science, because they often endure long ; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, because everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness ; and when this is done one path... | |
 | 1886 - 1886 - 912 pages
...us to facts; it is often through the doubtful or the false that we attain the truth; as Darwin says: "False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a salutary... | |
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