 | 1909 - 846 páginas
...which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favorable ones. Owing to this habit, very few objections were raised against my views which I had not... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1910 - 410 páginas
...which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail, and at once ; for I had found, by experience, that such facts and thoughts...apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones." Let us remember how Darwin opened his first note-book in 1837, conceived the idea of natural selection... | |
 | Robert L. Ottley - 1912 - 264 páginas
...results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once ; ' for I had found by experience/ he says, ' that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones.' 1 The importance of some such rule in study is obvious. In proportion as the standard of knowledge... | |
 | Ernest Jones - 1913 - 470 páginas
...which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts...apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones.' Pick1 quotes a number of authors who more or less clearly recognise that a defensive striving against... | |
 | 1918 - 478 páginas
...to my general results (it was my practice) to make a memorandum of it without fail at once ; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts...apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones" (p. 71). Also his keen watch for exceptional phenomena; and " My love of natural science (the medium... | |
 | Edward David Jones - 1914 - 300 páginas
...which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts...had not at least noticed and attempted to answer. This natural difficulty is increased when pride takes a perverted form, and emphasizes consistency... | |
 | Sigmund Freud - 1914 - 362 páginas
...which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once ; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts...apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones " (quoted by Jones, loc. tit., p. 38). Psychopathology of Everyday Life and reference books, so that... | |
 | Edmund Owen - 1914 - 240 páginas
...rule to note without fail and at once any observation or idea which told against his theories, for he found by experience that such facts and thoughts were...apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones. And if Darwin could not trust his memory for unwelcome facts, I think that very few of us can trust... | |
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I had, also, during many years followed a golden rule, namely, that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by... 
