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" I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. "
The Problem of Logic - Page 315
by William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein - 1908 - 500 pages
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Wallace's Monthly, Volume 14

Horse racing - 1888 - 1018 pages
...extended field of scientific research to which he applied himself. He says: " I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved, as soon as facts are shown, to be opposed to it." And again: " I soon saw that selection was the keystone...
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The Method of Darwin: A Study in Scientific Method

Frank Cramer - Evolution - 1896 - 246 pages
...mind is beautifully described in Darwin's own words concerning himself: "I have steadily endeav-' ored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis,...exception of the Coral Reefs, I cannot remember a single first -formed hypothesis which had not after a time to be given up or greatly modified. This has naturally...
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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an ..., Volume 1

Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1898 - 588 pages
...other men. I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, ho-.vever much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts a.rf shown to be opposed to it. Indeed, I have had no choice but to act in this manner, for with the...
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Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, Volume 46

American Geographical Society of New York - Electronic journals - 1914 - 1180 pages
...mates of observed but unmatched facts may be fairly found. Darwin wrote: "I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it Indeed I have had no choice but to act in this manner,...
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Report of the ... and ... Meetings of the British Association for ..., Volume 72

British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - Science - 1903 - 1174 pages
...people not at all worth testing.' In his Autobiography Darwin remarks: — 'I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis,...however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on e.cery subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.' The italics in these passages are...
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Logic, Inductive and Deductive: An Introduction to Scientific Method

Adam Leroy Jones - Logic - 1909 - 332 pages
...article in the Atlantic Monthly, February, 1903, p. 153. forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it. Indeed, I have...single firstformed hypothesis which had not after a short time to be given up or greatly modified." 8 It has been said that an hypothesis is a question.7...
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DARWIN AND MODERN SCIENCE

A.C. SEWARD - 1909 - 800 pages
...lessons of Darwin's life. In his autobiographical sketch, he tells us, "I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved... as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it" Writing to Mr J. Scott, he says, "It is a golden rule,...
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A College Course in Writing from Models

Frances Campbell Berkeley Young - English language - 1910 - 502 pages
...far as I can judge, I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men. I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis,...no choice but to act in this manner, for with the 5 exception of the Coral Reefs, I cannot remember a single first-formed hypothesis which had not after...
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Darwinism and Human Life: The South African Lectures for 1909

John Arthur Thomson - Evolution - 1910 - 410 pages
...as for his own." What a fine temper there is in Darwin's statement — " I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis,...— as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it." " I had," he says, " during many years followed a golden rule, namely, that whenever a published fact,...
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The Sixth Sense: Its Cultivation and Use

Charles Henry Brent - New Thought - 1919 - 112 pages
...order. He is his own best witness to the truth of this assertion. He says, " I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis,...on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposite to it," adding that he could not remember " a single first formed hypothesis which had not...
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