The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we... New Outlook - Page 271953 - 17 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...Chess The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player...mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty... | |
| Ilse Nina Bulhof - 1992 - 224 pages
...her own. The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player...that his play is always fair, just and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.... | |
| Peter Bock - 1993 - 356 pages
...THE WISE The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player...that his play is always fair, just, and patient But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes (1221 -1284) the smallest allowance... | |
| Peter Bock - 1993 - 356 pages
...the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY A Liberal Education (1868) THE ENVIRONMENT To clarify and vivify the theory of... | |
| G. Brent Dalrymple - 1991 - 506 pages
...the Earth The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. The player...mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. TH HUXLEY, 1868 A Liberal Education CHAPTER ONE Introduction There are few problems more fascinating... | |
| Ravi Vakil - 1996 - 258 pages
...iiiiiiii A The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player...mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. Thomas Huxley The Invention of Chess An old legend explains that chess was invented more than a thousand... | |
| C.C. Gaither - 1997 - 510 pages
...Thomas The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player...mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews A Liberal Education (pp. 31-2) Koestler, A. One branch after another... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1997 - 398 pages
...her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player...mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. To the man who plays well, the highest stakes are paid, with that sort of overflowing generosity with... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...captured by the Romans he was unable to poison himself, so he ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him. what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the...mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, (1825-1895) British biologist. "A Liberal Education," Lay Sermons, Addresses,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Technology - 1997 - 68 pages
...that "The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player...he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowances for ignorance." Although all of the research known of to date has only involved animals... | |
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