 | American Institute of Instruction - 1886 - 336 pages
...attention. I may be wrong in the conclusions I have reached, but I have tried to state them so clearly that my errors will be promptly detected. " Next to being...against a post, and that sets you all right again." 13. New buds do not make a new tree. Each year adds something new to our education either in doctrine... | |
 | William Harold Payne - 1886 - 390 pages
...somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently...wrong, you must, some of these days, have the extreme good-fortune of knocking your head against a post, and that sets you all right again."* After all,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - 474 pages
...If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere ; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently...days, have the extreme good fortune of knocking your head'against a fact, and that sets you all straight again. So I will not trouble myself as to whether... | |
 | Huxley, Thomas H. - 1898
...If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere ; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently...extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight again. So I will not trouble myself as to whether I may be right... | |
 | Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell - 1900 - 344 pages
...If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere ; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently...extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight again. So I will not trouble myself as to whether I may be right... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 398 pages
...somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently...extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight again. So I will not trouble myself as to whether I may be right... | |
 | Simon Nelson Patten - 1903 - 232 pages
...If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere ; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently...extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you straight again." — HUXLEY. CONTENTS CHAmit fAGE I. THE PROBLEM i II. THE... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 190 pages
...If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere ; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently...extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight again. So I will not trouble myself as to whether I may be right... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 190 pages
...If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere ; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently wrong, you must, some of these days, nave the extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1910 - 446 pages
...somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently...extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight again. So I will not trouble myself as to whether I may be right... | |
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Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will come out somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutely... 
