 We spent many hours in Cwm Idwal, examining all the rocks with extreme care, as Sedgwick was anxious to find fossils in them; but neither of us saw a trace of the wonderful glacial phenomena all around us; we did not notice the plainly scored rocks, the...  An Introductory Logic - Page 289by James Edwin Creighton - 1909 - 520 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 570 pages
...how easy it is to overlook phenomena, however conspicuous, before they have been observed by any one. We spent many hours in Cwm Idwal, examining all the rocks with extreme care, as Sedgwick was anxious to find fossils in them ; but neither of us saw a trace of the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 586 pages
...how easy it is to overlook phenomena, however conspicuous, before they have been observed by any oni. We spent many hours in Cwm Idwal, examining all the rocks with extreme care, as Sedgwick was anxious to find fossils in them ; but neither of us saw a trace of the... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...how easy it is to overlook phenomena, however conspicuous, before they have been observed by any one. We spent many hours in Cwm Idwal, examining all the rocks with extreme care, as Sedgwick was anxious to find fossils in them ; but neither of us saw a trace of the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1891 - 592 pages
...how easy it is to overlook phenomena, however conspicuous, before they have been observed by any one. We spent many hours in Cwm Idwal, examining all the rocks with extreme care, as Sedgwick was anxious to find fossils in them ; but neither of us saw a trace of the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1892 - 372 pages
...how easy it is to overlook phenomena, however conspicious, before they have been observed by any one. We spent many hours in Cwm Idwal, examining all the rocks with extreme care, as Sedgwick was anxious to find fossils in them ; * In connection with this tour my father... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 580 pages
...how easy it is to overlook phenomena, however conspicuous, before they have been observed by any one. We spent many hours in Cwm Idwal, examining all the rocks with extreme care, as Sedgwick was anxious to find fossils in them ; but neither of us saw a trace of the... | |
 | Johannes Paulus Lotsy - Botany - 1906 - 412 pages
...ein auffallendes Beispiel von den mit der Wahrnehmung neuer Tatsachen verknüpften Schwierigkeiten: We spent many hours in Cwm Idwal, examining all the rocks with extreme care as Sedgwick was anxious to find fossils in them, but neither of us sa lv a trace of the... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - Logic - 1917 - 372 pages
...the mental eye. The following anecdote from the life of Darwin brings out this feature very well: " Darwin tells of a geological trip through Wales which...We spent many hours in Cwm Idwal, examining all the 1 Dewey, How We Think, pp. 105-06. rocks with supreme care, as Sedgwick was anxious to find fossils... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - Logic - 1917 - 384 pages
...the mental eye. The following anecdote from the life of Darwin brings out this feature very well : " Darwin tells of a geological trip through Wales which...We spent many hours in Cwm Idwal, examining all the 1 Dewey, Sow We Think, pp. 105-06. rocks with supreme care, as Sedgwick was anxious to find fossils... | |
 | Arthur Irving Gates - Educational psychology - 1923 - 522 pages
...some natural phenomenon after Agassiz's discovery of evidence of a glacial period in prehistoric days. "We spent many hours in Cwm Idwal, examining all the rocks with supreme care, as 'RiBor, Essay on the Creative Imagination, p. 247. Sedgwick (another eminent scientist) was anxious... | |
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