 | 1888 - 1004 страници
...except on the principle of Columbus and his egg, how I could have overlooked it and its solution. ... I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in...to me ; and this was long after I had come to Down. (Vol. i., p. 84.) What the solution was need not here be stated. Its validity has been controverted,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 572 страници
...except on the principle of Columbus and hia egg, how I conld have overlooked it and its solution. ... I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in...solution occurred to me ; and this was long after I had conic to Down.' — Vol. ip 84. What the solution was need not here be stated. Its validity has been... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1894 - 392 страници
...except on the principle of Columbus and his egg, how I could have overlooked it and its solution. ... I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in...me ; and this was long after I had come to Down." Now the coming to Down was on "September 14, 1842." A comparison of these dates will show that the... | |
 | Frank Cramer - 1896 - 246 страници
...diverged was proved by their arrangement into groups within groups. " I can remember," he went on, "the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage,...me ; and this was long after I had come to Down." 1 The solution was this, — "that the modified offspring of all dominant and increasing forms tend... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1897 - 598 страници
...me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be...the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solu- / tion occurred to me ; and this was long after I had come to Down. The solution, as I believe,... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner - 1900 - 520 страници
...understanding simplifies and arranges a heterogeneous and disorderly mass of facts. If an explanation makes 1 " I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in...carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me." — " Life and Letters of Charles Darwin." New York, 1888. Vol. I., p 69. the people who read it see... | |
 | American Geographical Society of New York - 1914 - 1180 страници
...unconscious process that suddenly awakes, ejaculating "Eureka." Darwin said regarding one of his problems: "I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst...carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me" (Life and Letters, Vol. I, p. 84). But invention should not cease with its first product; it should... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner - 1901 - 534 страници
...and arranges a heterogeneous and disorderly mass of facts. If an explanation makes 1 " I can/remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me." — " Life and Letters of Charles Darwin." New York, 1888. Vol. I., p 69. the people who read it see... | |
 | 1902 - 200 страници
...genera under families, families under sub-orders and so forth; and I can remember the very spot on the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the...to me; and this was long after I had come to Down. This solution, as I believe, is that the modified offspring of all dominant and increasing forms tend... | |
 | John Wesley Judd - 1910 - 202 страници
...1842, he tells us in his autobiography, that his mind freed itself from this objection. He says : — 'I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst...carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me,' and he compares the relief to his mind as resembling the effect produced by 'Columbus and his egg110.'... | |
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I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me ; and this was long after I had come to Down. 
