Excerpt from The Nature and Origin of Living Matter
"To experience we refer, as the only ground of all physical inquiry. But before experience itself can be used with advantage, there is one preliminary step to make, which depends wholly on ourselves: it is the absolute dismissal and clearing of the mind of all prejudice from whatsoever source arising, and the determination to stand or fall by the result of a direct appeal to facts in the first instance, and of strict logical deduction from them afterwards." Sir John Herschell: Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy.
"The mechanical conception of Nature very well admits of being united with a teleological conception of the Universe." Professor August Weismann: Studies in the Theory of Descent.
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