 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Dampier - Science - 1924 - 312 pages
...reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to me probable: from that... | |
 | George Milton Janes - Economics - 1925 - 188 pages
...and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes. These I enlarged, in 1844, into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable. From... | |
 | George Amos Dorsey - Naturalists - 1928 - 326 pages
...out of the realm of magic and evolve them himself. But he was to wait nearly four years more before "I allowed myself to speculate on the subject and drew up some short notes" — called a "brief abstract" in another place. This "abstract" or sketch of thirty-five pages, written... | |
 | United States - 1921 - 498 pages
...reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable; from... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1981 - 964 pages
...reflected] on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes. ..." Likewise, on page one of The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, he explains that "I... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Reference - 1996 - 382 pages
...reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to me probable: from that... | |
 | David R. Keller, Frank B. Golley - Science - 2000 - 390 pages
...reflected on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes." Likewise, on the first page of The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, he says, "I arrived,... | |
 | Gordon Miller - Nature - 2000 - 266 pages
...reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these 1 enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to me probable: from that... | |
 | David R. Keller, Frank B. Golley - Science - 2000 - 386 pages
...reflected on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes." Likewise, on the first page of The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, he says, "I arrived,... | |
 | Leslie Alan Horvitz - Science - 2001 - 356 pages
...of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers .... After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ...." Before he advanced his own theory, Darwin summarized the various theories that were still in... | |
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After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable; from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued... 
