 It is quite certain that we cannot become sufficiently acquainted with organized creatures and their hidden potentialities by aid of purely mechanical natural principles, much less can we explain them ; and this is so certain, that we may boldly assert...  School Science and Mathematics - Strana 3721913Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Ernst Haeckel - 1880 - 414 str.
...it is absurd for man even to conceive such an idea, or to hope that a Newton may one day arise able to make the production of a blade of grass comprehensible,...intention; such an insight we must absolutely deny to man." Now, however, this impossible Newton has really appeared seventy years later in Darwin, whose Theory... | |
 | Ernst Haeckel - 1883 - 416 str.
...it is absurd for man even to conceive such an idea, or to hope that a Newton may one day arise able to make the production of a blade of grass comprehensible,...intention; such an insight we must absolutely deny to man." Now, however, this impossible Newton has really appeared seventy years later in Darwin, whose Theory... | |
 | Henry Fairfield Osborn - 1894 - 284 str.
...; it would therefore remain a daring flight of reason. In a striking passage upon the limits of our knowledge, he says : — "It is quite certain that...; such an insight we must absolutely deny to man." As Haeckel observes, Darwin rose up as Kant's Newton ; for he offered an explanation of the production... | |
 | Henry Fairfield Osborn - 1894 - 284 str.
...principles, much less can we explain them ; and this is so certain, that we may boldly assert that it i& absurd for man even to conceive such an idea, or to...intention; such an insight we must absolutely deny to man." As Haeckel observes, Darwin rose up as Kant's Newton ; for he offered an explanation of the production... | |
 | A.C. SEWARD - 1909 - 800 str.
...alludes to the scientific caution which led Kant, biology being what it was, to refuse to entertain the hope " that a Newton may one day arise even to make...according to natural laws ordained by no intention." As Prof. Haeckel finely observes, Darwin rose up as Kant's Newton2. The scientific renaissance brought... | |
 | Henry Fairfield Osborn - 1918 - 372 str.
...it is absurd for man even to conceive such an idea, or to hope that a Newton may one day arise able to make the production of a blade of grass comprehensible,...intention; such an insight we must absolutely deny to man."2 For a long period after The Origin of Species appeared, Haeckel and many others believed that... | |
 | Henry Fairfield Osborn - 1917 - 368 str.
...it is absurd for man even to conceive such an idea, or to hope that a Newton may one day arise able to make the production of a blade of grass comprehensible,...intention; such an insight we must absolutely deny to man."2 For a long period after The Origin of Species appeared, Haeckel and many others believed that... | |
 | 1918 - 840 str.
...quarter ago Kant boldly asserted "that it is absurd for man to hope that a Newton may one day arise able to make the production of a blade of grass comprehensible,...; such an insight we must absolutely deny to man." And even to-day we are in no better position to give a valid scientific explanation for those processes... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1920 - 372 str.
...it is absurd for man even to conceive such an idea, or to hope that a Newton may one day arise able to make the production of a blade of grass comprehensible,...intention; such an insight we must absolutely deny to man " (Teleological Faculty of Judgment, § 74). We wonder how much of this he would have written had he... | |
 | Edwin Grant Conklin - 1921 - 272 str.
...absurd for man even to conceive such an idea, or to hope that a Newton may one day arise to make even the production of a blade of grass comprehensible,...according to natural laws ordained by no intention." Haeckel and other pure mechanists have hailed Darwin as Kant's impossible Newton of the living world... | |
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