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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... future the causes which have led to failure in the past . I have , from the standpoint of an original investigator in physical science , attempted to show how fundamentally and beyond the possibility of escape our knowledge and control ...
... future the causes which have led to failure in the past . I have , from the standpoint of an original investigator in physical science , attempted to show how fundamentally and beyond the possibility of escape our knowledge and control ...
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... mere neglect of science by the British nation is involved , and that , in the educational institutions and govern- ment of this country , science has not received , nor is PREFACE ix it likely in the future to receive , viii PREFACE.
... mere neglect of science by the British nation is involved , and that , in the educational institutions and govern- ment of this country , science has not received , nor is PREFACE ix it likely in the future to receive , viii PREFACE.
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... future . But , with the present spirit still dominant , how can it be expected that modern men will bequeath their wealth to the universities here , as they habitually do in America ? Nor is it much use Parliament voting large grants ...
... future . But , with the present spirit still dominant , how can it be expected that modern men will bequeath their wealth to the universities here , as they habitually do in America ? Nor is it much use Parliament voting large grants ...
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... FUTURE OF SCIENCE , AND WHAT BARS THE WAY Presidential Address to the Aberdeen University Scientific Association , Nov. 1916 . • 65 THE EVOLUTION OF MATTER 85 Contributed to the Aberdeen University Review , Feb. 1917 . THE CONCEPTION OF ...
... FUTURE OF SCIENCE , AND WHAT BARS THE WAY Presidential Address to the Aberdeen University Scientific Association , Nov. 1916 . • 65 THE EVOLUTION OF MATTER 85 Contributed to the Aberdeen University Review , Feb. 1917 . THE CONCEPTION OF ...
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... future generations of public men . If men so trained had been debarred from holding public positions in the State , or even if they had been regarded , so far as their training was serious , as specialists , instead of becoming the ...
... future generations of public men . If men so trained had been debarred from holding public positions in the State , or even if they had been regarded , so far as their training was serious , as specialists , instead of becoming the ...
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