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" Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion,... "
Discovery: Or, The Spirit and Service of Science - Page 44
by Sir Richard Gregory - 1916 - 340 pages
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Social Problems and Education

Ernest Rutherford Groves - Education - 1925 - 472 pages
...highest an<l strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of active surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up any preconceived notion, follow humbly wherein and to whatever abysses nature leads or you shall learn...
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The Creative Spirit: An Inquiry Into American Life

Rollo Walter Brown - Idealism - 1925 - 256 pages
...which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every...preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace...
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Journal and Proceedings

Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland - Chemistry - 1925 - 420 pages
...ever in the spirit pregnant in a sentence in one of his letters to the clergyman Charles Kingsley: "Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up eve*y preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads or you shall...
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Social Problems and Education

Ernest Rutherford Groves - Education - 1925 - 472 pages
...of the scientist when he faces any investigation. "Science seems to me to teach in the highest an«l strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of active surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up...
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The Great Delusion

Marion Whiteford [Acworth (Mrs.]) - Aeronautics - 1927 - 336 pages
...been printed in italics. These are the Author's italics and are not to be found hi the original text. "Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion ... or you shall learn nothing." CHAPTEE I INTRODUCTORY THE LAW OF CURRENTS THE basic fact is not generally...
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The Great Delusion: A Study of Aircraft in Peace and War

Marion Whiteford Acworth - Aeronautics - 1927 - 336 pages
...italics. These are the Author's italics and are not to be found in the original text. "Sit down before fad as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion ... or you shall learn nothing." CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY THE LAW OF CURRENTS THE basic fact is not generally...
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Educational Review, Volume 34

Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1907 - 562 pages
...spiritual meaning, altho unspeakable, and that they are great helps, after all." * Mr. Huxley writes : "Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest...entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and...
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Human Engineering and Industrial Economy

Lawrence Arthur Hartley - Industrial efficiency - 1928 - 386 pages
...and putrefy but engenders new life, and changes to fresh forms of matter." 1 "Science," said Huxley, "seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest...entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before the fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever...
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Science in Search of God, Volume 53

Kirtley Fletcher Mather - Religion and science - 1928 - 184 pages
...the dawn of recorded human history. Huxley's instructions to the investigator, " Sit down before a fact as a little child; be prepared to give up every...preconceived notion; follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads," were paralleled by the thought in the mind of Jesus long ago, when...
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The Old Savage in the New Civilization

Raymond Blaine Fosdick - History - 1928 - 266 pages
...be the guiding principle of any graduating class that walks out into the world in this generation : "Sit down before fact as a little child; be prepared to give up any preconceived notion; follow humbly wherein and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn...
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