 | 1870 - 846 pagina’s
...modern chemistry and of the modern optical arts, to be a most ingenious and suggestive speculation. But the great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact — which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers, was played, almost immediately,... | |
 | Chemical Society (Great Britain) - 1910 - 1364 pagina’s
...very possibly have allowed them to bias my judgment. Moreover, I have suffered what Huxley called that great tragedy of science — " the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." But I regard this as a proper and desirable ending, and am glad to have helped in the " happy dispatch,"... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 400 pagina’s
...modern chemistry, and of the modern optical arts, to be a most ingenious and suggestive speculation. But the great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact — which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers, was played, almost immediately,... | |
 | 1870 - 500 pagina’s
...modern chemistry, and of the modern optical arts, to be a most ingenious and suggestive speculation. But the great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact — which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers, was played, almost immediately,... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1871 - 714 pagina’s
...modern chemistry and of the modern optical arts, to be a most ingenious and suggestive speculation. But the great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact — which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers, was played, almost immediately,... | |
 | 1871 - 330 pagina’s
...modern chemistry and of the molern optical arts to be a most ingenious and suggestive speculation. But the great tragedy of science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact — which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers, was played almost immediately... | |
 | 1871 - 316 pagina’s
...modern chemistry and of the mo tern optical arts to be a most ingenious and suggestive speculation. But the great tragedy of science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact — which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers, was played almost immediately... | |
 | 1871 - 668 pagina’s
...modem chemistry and of the modern optical arts, to be a most ingenious anil suggestive speculation. But the great tragedy of science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by on ugly fact — which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers, was played almost... | |
 | 1870 - 488 pagina’s
...modern chemistry and of the modern optical arts, to be a most ingenious and suggestive speculation. But the great tragedy of science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact — which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers, was played almost immediately,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 428 pagina’s
...modern chemistry, and of the modern optical arts, to be a most ingenious and suggestive speculation. But the great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact — which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers, was played, almost immediately,... | |
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But the great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact... 
