...importance, and is sure to be constantly productive of mischievous, if not fatal, results in the long run. Do not allow yourselves to be misled by the common notion that a hypothesis is untrustworthy simply because it is a hypothesis. It is often urged, in respect to some...

...conclusion, that, after all, it is only a hypothesis. But what more have we to guide us in ninetcnths of the most important affairs of daily life than hypotheses,...ill-based ones ? So that in science, where the evidence of a hypothesis is subjected to the most rigid examination, we may rightly pursue the same course. You...

...allow yourself to be misled by the common notion that a hypothesis is untrustworthy because it is a hypothesis. It is often urged, in respect to some scientific conclusion, that, after all, it is only a hypothesis. But what more have we to guide us in ninetenths of the most important affairs of daily...

...hypothesis. It is often urged, in respect to some scientific conclusion, that, after all, it is only a hypothesis. But what more have we to guide us in ninetenths...most important affairs of daily life than hypotheses, andoften very ill-based ones ? So that in science, where the evidence of a hypothesis is subjected...

...difference in the world. Prof. Huxley is right in his estimate of guesses. Says he, " Do not allow yourself to be misled by the common notion that an hypothesis is untrustworthy because it is an hypothesis. What more have we to guide us in nine-tenths of the most important affairs...

...hypothesis. It is often urged, in respect to some scientific conclusion, that, after all, it is only a hypothesis. But what more have we to guide us in nine-tenths...ill-based ones ? So that in Science, where the evidence of a hypothesis is subjected to the most rigid examination, we may rightly pursue the same course." Further...

...Huxley, "to be misled by the common notion that a hypothesis is untrustworthy simply because it is a hypothesis. It is often urged, in respect to some scientific conclusion, that, after all, it is only a hypothesis. But what more have we to guide us iu nine-tenths of the most important affairs of daily...

...misled by the common notion that a hypothesis is untrustworthy simply because it is a hypothesis. . . . What more have we to guide us in nine-tenths of the most important affairs of daily life than hypothesis ? " From which it must not be deduced that archaeological studies are based on mere guess-work...

...revenge ourselves by the blood of these miserable wretches. Do not allow yourselves to be misled by the notion that an hypothesis is untrustworthy simply because it is an hypothesis. In all such expressions the "not" is closely coupled with the verb. Frequently, however, " not " expresses...

...agnosticism. Huxley, one of our greatest agnostic scientists, was conscious of this when he said, " Do not allow yourselves to be misled by the common notion that a hypothesis is untrustworthy simply because it is a hypothesis " (Lectures to Working Men, 1867)....