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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... given me a store of energy , " the modern Archimedes might say , " and steel wherewith to apply it , and lo ! I have moved the world . " WATER POWER . In justice to science , however , it must be said that not all its conquests are ...
... given me a store of energy , " the modern Archimedes might say , " and steel wherewith to apply it , and lo ! I have moved the world . " WATER POWER . In justice to science , however , it must be said that not all its conquests are ...
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... given out by fluorescent substances , and whether any of them , like the X - rays , are able to penetrate an opaque material , to follow nature rather than to lead , and to win a grain of knowledge for the communism of science , is to ...
... given out by fluorescent substances , and whether any of them , like the X - rays , are able to penetrate an opaque material , to follow nature rather than to lead , and to win a grain of knowledge for the communism of science , is to ...
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... given out by radium , of various kinds and intense interest , and a thousand new phenomena make themselves mani- fest , but like galley slaves and fertilisers , waterfalls and food , they must here be brought into line from the single ...
... given out by radium , of various kinds and intense interest , and a thousand new phenomena make themselves mani- fest , but like galley slaves and fertilisers , waterfalls and food , they must here be brought into line from the single ...
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... given out . Just as chemical changes , the disruption and formation of molecules and the rearrangement of the component atoms out of which they are built -such changes as the explosion of dynamite or gunpowder - occur with far greater ...
... given out . Just as chemical changes , the disruption and formation of molecules and the rearrangement of the component atoms out of which they are built -such changes as the explosion of dynamite or gunpowder - occur with far greater ...
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... given fair play , can hope to keep the wolf from the door . If one judged from history solely , bad times must follow the present orgy as night follows day . The only question is whether science , which in the past century is estimated ...
... given fair play , can hope to keep the wolf from the door . If one judged from history solely , bad times must follow the present orgy as night follows day . The only question is whether science , which in the past century is estimated ...
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