 | American Antiquarian Society - 1867 - 730 sayfa
...an account of them inserted in the •' Archeologia." All which illustrates a remark attributed to Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is...science, people first say " it is not true," then " it is contrary to religion," and lastly, " everybody knew it before." :i: Another important discovery... | |
 | 1882 - 708 sayfa
...Sir Charles Lyell quotes a saying of Agassiz,—that when a startling discovery in physics is made people first say it is not true ; then, that it is contrary to religion ; and lastly, that it was known before. Newton's philosophy was decried in France, where all were enamoured of Descartes... | |
 | 1850 - 702 sayfa
...Sir Charles Lyell quotes a saying of Agassiz,—that when a startling discovery in physics is made people first say it is not true ; then, that it is contrary to religion; and lastly, that it was known before. Newton's philosophy was decried in France, where all were enamoured of Descartes... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1863 - 558 sayfa
...shall allude more fully in the sequel. I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, 'that whenever a new and startling fact is...were considering merely the cultivators of geology, I should say that the doctrine of the former co-existence of Man with many extinct mammalia had already... | |
 | 1863 - 640 sayfa
...d'Anthropologie de Paris. T. 1. Fascic. l, 2 et 3. Paris, 1861. PROFESSOR AGASSIZ has somewhere said "that whenever a new and startling fact is brought...' it is contrary to religion,' and lastly, ' that every body knew it before.'" A somewhat similar idea finds expression in the characteristic language... | |
 | 1867 - 996 sayfa
...Agassiz, that the world in dealing with a new truth passes through three stages: it first says that it is not true, then that it is contrary to religion, and finally, that we knew it before. Culture is raised above the first two stages, but it is apt to disport... | |
 | Richard Atkinson Peacock - 1868 - 314 sayfa
...believe the scores of mutually corroborative testimonies to that effect which will now be produced ? " Whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science, people first say, it is not true." The author has experienced the * See " Eleven reasons (old, or new, or newly put) why there must be... | |
 | Richard Atkinson Peacock - 1868 - 314 sayfa
...believe the scores of mutually corroborative testimonies to that effect which will now be produced ? " Whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science, people first say, it is not true." The author has experienced the * See " Eleven reasons Cold, or new, ornevrly put) why there must be... | |
 | James P. Luse - 1874 - 46 sayfa
...antiquity of man Lyell quotes a saying ot Agassiz that tersely exhibits the progress of science. He said that whenever a new and startling fact is brought...religion," and lastly, " that everybody knew it before." From the ancient days when it was sinful not to believe the earth a flat plain and the sky a crystalline... | |
 | 1875 - 842 sayfa
...the allegations of the first discoverer, and concludes his account by quoting the saying of Professer Agassiz, "that whenever a new and startling fact is...people first say 'it is not true;' then, that 'it Í4 contrary to religion;' and lastly, ' that everybody knew it.'" It' he and other experienced geologists... | |
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• that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science, people first say,' it is not true,' then that 'it is contrary to religion/ and, lastly, 'that everybody knew it before.'" If I were considering merely the cultivators of geology,... 
