It is one of Mr. Darwin's many great services toBiological science that he has demonstrated the significance of these facts.
The subject-matter of Biological scienceis different from that of other sciences, but the methods of all are identical; and these methods are-- 1.
So far from comparison being in any way peculiar to Biological science, it is, I think, the essence of every science.
Paris was in the opening years of the nineteenth century the chief centre of biological science.
This striking personage in the history of biological science, who has made such an ineffaceable impression on the philosophy of biology, certainly demands more than a brief éloge to keep alive his memory.
This is the first time in the history of biological science that we have stated in so scientific, broad, and modern form the essential principles of evolution.
The discoveries which Darwin made in the course of his investigations of these plants belong to the most brilliant in biological science.
Cuvier made careful studies, especially of fossil vertebrates, from the standpoint of zoology and was thus the founder of palaeontology as a biological science.
In a dozen years "The Origin of Species" has worked as complete a revolution in biological science as the "Principia" did in astronomy.
A sufficiently comprehensive and difficult problem remains after still further restriction of the field so as to include only subject matter and the method of biological science.
They cause him to regard in utter amazement, the applicant for a position who in answer to question replies "No, I have never taken any courses in biological Science, but I can easily prepare myself to teach it, if need be.
This spirit can be acquired by specialization in one of the fields of biological science, followed by some actual research work.
Biological science is not entirely separable from physical science, for a majority of life phenomena, in final analysis can be explained only in terms of physical science.
And yet in that sum total was contained, I may say, the materials of two revolutions in as many of the main branches of biological science.
Of these the first--or that which deals with the purely historical side of biological science--may be allowed to stand over for an indefinite time.
Such a blind faith, indeed, I hold to be highly inimical, not only to the progress of biological science, but even to the true interests of the natural selection theory itself.
At all times it stood out of analogy with the principle of continuity; and, as we shall fully find in subsequent chapters, it is now directly contradicted by all the facts of biological science.
There are plenty of puzzling problems connected with heredity, but the fact of heredity is one of the foundation stones of biological science.
But the discoveries starting in the fourth decade of the century by disclosing the unity of activity changed the aspect of biological science.
These ideas arose shortly after the middle of the century, and have dominated the development of biological science up to the present time.
In the first place we have attempted to place before the general public in simple language a true statement of the present position of biological science.
It is absurd to expect those who stay at home and gain most of their knowledge second-hand to be the pioneers of biological science.
Undoubtedly, every one conversant with the state of biological scienceis aware that general opinion has long had good reason for making the volte face thus indicated.
But his personality left the deepest impression, perhaps, upon those who studied under him and worked with him longest, before taking their place elsewhere in the front ranks of biological science.
Having now defined the meaning of the word Biology, and having indicated the general scope of Biological Science, I turn to my second question, which is--Why should we study Biology?
I have always felt it to be a curious fact, that he who has altered the face of Biological Science, and is in this respect the chief of the moderns, should have written and worked in so essentially a non-modern spirit and manner.
So the whole range, we might say the whole conceivable range, of biological science is sketched out, and the greater part of the great canvas is painted in.
Among the Greeks the accurate observation of living forms, which is at least one of the essentials of biological science, goes back very far.
Now science, even in this restricted sense, covers a great range of subjects; it may be physics in the narrowest meaning of the word, or chemistry, or biological science.
The mind has been influenced by the movement of physical and even of biological science, not only in a way which is favourable, but in ways which are prejudicial to the acceptance of the Atonement.
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