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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... course in nature , and how , under wisdom and knowledge , it may be intertwined with human destiny , instead of careering headlong to the ocean , are a study at least as pregnant with consequences to life as any lesson taught by the ...
... course in nature , and how , under wisdom and knowledge , it may be intertwined with human destiny , instead of careering headlong to the ocean , are a study at least as pregnant with consequences to life as any lesson taught by the ...
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... course of pettifogging crofting fits no man to administer vast possessions . With the exception of a few , to whom it is a hobby , public men in this country are as ignorant of the meaning of science to life as the man in the street is ...
... course of pettifogging crofting fits no man to administer vast possessions . With the exception of a few , to whom it is a hobby , public men in this country are as ignorant of the meaning of science to life as the man in the street is ...
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... course , welcomed and universally adopted by official and orthodox circles , so soon as the further progress of the movement has made it appear as the least of inevitable evils . Even the nationalisation of rail- ways , land , and the ...
... course , welcomed and universally adopted by official and orthodox circles , so soon as the further progress of the movement has made it appear as the least of inevitable evils . Even the nationalisation of rail- ways , land , and the ...
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... course , professional soldiers to think along these lines and to act , under civil con- trol , according to these tenets . But for an entire nation - once great in philosophy , literature and the arts , once possessing an empire vastly ...
... course , professional soldiers to think along these lines and to act , under civil con- trol , according to these tenets . But for an entire nation - once great in philosophy , literature and the arts , once possessing an empire vastly ...
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... course , at the moment that scientific researches and inquiries are now very largely suspended , and that the energies of scientific men in this country have almost wholly been drawn into the vortex , in common with the rest of the ...
... course , at the moment that scientific researches and inquiries are now very largely suspended , and that the energies of scientific men in this country have almost wholly been drawn into the vortex , in common with the rest of the ...
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