Science and Life: Aberdeen AddressesJ. Murray, 1920 - 229 páginas This work is a collection of addresses and articles written at Aberdeen University regarding the interaction between science and society. |
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... active , so far as it is active at all , in ensuring that the improvement in material conditions shall increase the sum - total of human misery . THE APPLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY . The statesman from whom the writer has ventured ...
... active , so far as it is active at all , in ensuring that the improvement in material conditions shall increase the sum - total of human misery . THE APPLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY . The statesman from whom the writer has ventured ...
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... active and do work . In scientific language energy is the term now used to signify what once was , and still is , popularly called force . Energy is the power of doing work ( kinetic energy ) , or anything which can be converted into ...
... active and do work . In scientific language energy is the term now used to signify what once was , and still is , popularly called force . Energy is the power of doing work ( kinetic energy ) , or anything which can be converted into ...
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... active opposition has still to be overcome before science takes its rightful place in the Scottish universities . Indeed , one has only to contrast the growth and power of science in the outside world , not merely the world of things ...
... active opposition has still to be overcome before science takes its rightful place in the Scottish universities . Indeed , one has only to contrast the growth and power of science in the outside world , not merely the world of things ...
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... active agents in per- petuating in power a type of man who is hopelessly out of tune with his environment , however rational he may have been in the Middle Ages . Then Latin was much what Esperanto is trying to become to - day , a ...
... active agents in per- petuating in power a type of man who is hopelessly out of tune with his environment , however rational he may have been in the Middle Ages . Then Latin was much what Esperanto is trying to become to - day , a ...
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... active physicists in the investigation of the new property , and , when the writer joined him in Montreal in 1901 , had made a large number of very startling and fundamental discoveries , and had developed the refined methods of ...
... active physicists in the investigation of the new property , and , when the writer joined him in Montreal in 1901 , had made a large number of very startling and fundamental discoveries , and had developed the refined methods of ...
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