 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
 | 1902 - 200 pages
...they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for e.yery one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and, when this is done, one path toward error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened. The main conclusion... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1902 - 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... | |
 | Thomas Nixon Carver - 1905 - 826 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... | |
 | M. Moncalm - 1905 - 324 pages
...the views which have been advanced are highly speculative, and some no doubt will prove erroneous. 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 everyone takes a salutary... | |
 | E. E. Snell - 1983 - 980 pages
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 | 1938 - 610 pages
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 | Wynett Barnett - 1947 - 618 pages
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