Word: darwin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literature the only domain of human interest in which the achievements of the ancients may be profitably examined today. Chemists trace their lineage to Lucretius. Darwin declared that he had lost twenty years by not reading Aristotle before he began his own investigations and that his "two gods, Linnaeus and Cuvier were mere school-boys to old Aristotle." Aristotle is no less important for the student of political theory, and the philosopher of today had better make sure that his latest discovery has not been anticipated in whole or in part by Plato. John Stuart Mill, whose word should appeal...
...this summer. The medical and scientific press of every country is full of paeans of laudation. It is becoming increasingly clear that Pasteur's influence on science has been greater than that of any other man of the 19th or 20th centuries, with the sole exception of Charles Darwin...
...Wells' ten " most important books " in their effect on history and civilization, four are distinctly within the field of science: Aristotle's History of Animals (about 354 B. C.); Copernicus' The Revolution of the Heavens (A. D. 1543); Bacon's New Atlantis (1624); Darwin's Origin of Species (1859); while Plato's Republic (about 393 B. C.) and Marco Polo's Travels (1299) might easily be tagged as sociology and geography...
...books which he thinks are the most important in the world's literature. His list is as surprising as his thoughts on other subjects of equal significance. The first amazing feature is that he includes no history of the world. He puts down Aristotle's "History of Animals", and Darwin's "Origin of the Species"; was it professional modesty that prevented the inclusion of his own compendium...
Early Protestants (after Luther) set up the Bible to replace the authority of the Church. Their zealous quotation of the Bible soon made them more dogmatic than Catholics. Even Isaac Newton wrote with unperturbed faith about the miracles in Genesis. But his grand children-in-science, Darwin, Huxley, and historical criticism, hinted that not even the Bible was inerrant, so that now Steinmetz, a Unitarian, is forced to say that religion and science are unrelated...