 | Archibald Geikie (Sir).) - 1897 - 320 lehte
...carried with them, in this sequence, the key that would unlock the geological structure of every country. But never in the history of science did a stranger...themselves to discard theory and build on a foundation of accurately-ascertained fact. Never was a system devised in which theory was more rampant ; theory,... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - 1897 - 326 lehte
...when they supposed themselves to discard theory and build on a foundation of accurately-ascertained fact. Never was a system devised in which theory was...observation, and, as we now know, utterly erroneous. Prom beginning to end of Werner's method and its applications, assumptions were made for which there... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - 1905 - 514 lehte
...when they supposed themselves to discard theory and build on a foundation of accurately-ascertained fact. Never was a system devised in which theory was...erroneous. From beginning to end of Werner's method and its applicacations, assumptions were made for which there was no ground, and these assumptions were treated... | |
 | George McCready Price - 1906 - 102 lehte
...never in the history of science did a stranger hallucination arise than that of Cuvier and the modern school, when they supposed themselves to discard theory...know, utterly erroneous. From beginning to end of Cuvier's method and its applications, assumptions were made for which there was no ground, and these... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 326 lehte
...which he labeled and described with the same precision that he applied to the minerals in his cabinet. But never in the history of science did a stranger...; theory, too, unsupported by observation, and, as is now known, utterly erroneous. One of the fundamental postulates of the Wernerian doctrines was the... | |
 | George McCready Price - 1913 - 282 lehte
...applying to Cuvier and the modern school of geologists what Geikie says about Werner and his school: But never in the history of science did a stranger hallucination arise than that of Cuvier and the modern school, when they supposed themselves to discard theory and build on a foundation... | |
 | John Hodgdon Bradley - 1928 - 432 lehte
...chronological scheme succeeded merely in becoming ridiculous. Geikie remarks in this connection that "never in the history of science did a stranger hallucination...too, unsupported by observation, and, as we now know, FIG. 243. Abraham Gottlob Werner utterly erroneous. From the beginning to the end of Werner's method... | |
 | George McCready Price - 1995 - 514 lehte
...applying to Cuvier and the modern school of geologists what Gelkie* says about Werner and his school: "But never in the history of science did a stranger hallucination arise than that of Cuvier and the modern school, when they supposed themselves to discard theory and build on ak foundation... | |
 | Naomi Oreskes - 1999 - 433 lehte
...empirical justification was particularly promoted by Archibald Geikie, in his Founders of Geology : "Never in the history of science did a stranger hallucination...themselves to discard theory and build on a foundation of accurately-ascertained fact. Never was a system devised in which theory was more rampant; theory too,... | |
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But never in the history of science did a stranger hallucination arise than that of Cuvier and the modern school, when they supposed themselves to discard theory and build on a foundation of accurately ascertained fact. Never was a system devised in which... 