 None have fought better, and none have been more fortunate than Charles Darwin. He found a great truth, trodden under foot, reviled by bigots, and ridiculed by all the world; he lived long enough to see it, chiefly by his own efforts, irrefragably established...  My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions - Page 16by Alfred Russel Wallace - 1905Full view - About this book
 | 1879 - 614 lehte
...conquests over the realm of nature, and a time for mourning over the heroes who have led us to victory. None have fought better, and none have been more fortunate,...than CHARLES DARWIN. He found a great truth trodden under foot, reviled by bigots, and ridiculed by all the world ; he lived long enough to see it, chiefly... | |
 | 1882 - 110 lehte
...conquests over the realm of nature, and a time for mourning over the heroes who have led us to victory. None have fought better, and none have been more fortunate,...than Charles Darwin. He found a great truth trodden under foot, reviled by bigots, and ridiculed by all the world ; he lived long enough to see it, chiefly... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1904 - 808 lehte
...with results which are as the substance of which their speculations were anticipatory shadows. . . . None have fought better, and none have been more fortunate,...than Charles Darwin. He found a great truth trodden under foot, reviled by bigots, and ridiculed by all the world; he lived long enough to see it, chiefly... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1905 - 276 lehte
...can. CHARLES DARWIN to Asa Gray. -jr%ONE have fought better, and none have been more fortunate J)•f* than Charles Darwin. He found a great truth trodden...irrefragably established in science, inseparably incorporated into the common thoughts of men. What shall a man desire more than this ? THOMAS HUXLEY, Address, April... | |
 | John Muirhead Macfarlane - 1909 - 66 lehte
...and none have been more fortunate than Charles Darwin. He found a great truth, trodden under foot, reviled by bigots, and ridiculed by all the world...long enough to see it, chiefly by his own efforts, irrefragibly established in science, inseparably incorporated with the common thoughts of men, and... | |
 | John Muirhead Macfarlane - 1909 - 72 lehte
...his volumes have permeated the mental recesses of mankind. Huxley's tribute in "Nature" was correct. "None have fought better and none have been more fortunate...than Charles Darwin. He found a great truth, trodden under foot, reviled by bigots, and ridiculed by all the world ; he lived long enough to see it, chiefly... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1910 - 410 lehte
...and left behind him an accredited fallacy." Much more accurate is Huxley's fine pronouncement l : " None have fought better, and none have been more fortunate,...own efforts, irrefragably established in science." That the time was far from ripe is shown by Darwin's foreboding : i " Darwinians," p. 247. " When my... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1916 - 446 lehte
...speculate on the mind of Newton! Let each man hope and believe what he can. —Charles Darwin to Asa Cray None have fought better, and none have been more fortunate,...irrefragably established in science, inseparably incorporated into the common thoughts of men. What shall a man desire more than this? —Thomas Huxley, Address,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Schuster, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley - 1917 - 398 lehte
...controversy. But Darwin, as we have said, was no controversialist. Huxley wrote shortly after his death : " None have fought better, and none have been more fortunate,...underfoot, reviled by bigots, and ridiculed by all G. Mendel, C. Lyell, T. Huxley 279 the world; he lived long enough to see it, chiefly by his own efforts,... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 lehte
...it is acting against one another to be vexed and turn away. — Marcus Aurelius. ^^^ *» *«. ïjONE have fought better, and none *— * have been more...great truth trodden underfoot, reviled by bigots, and rediculed by all the world; he lived long enough to see it, chiefly by his own efforts irrefragably... | |
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