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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... hands of people of archaic mental outlook , no mock deference has been paid to conventional habits of thought . The times seem to call for outspokenness , if one has anything to say , rather than persuasive propagandism and time ...
... hands of people of archaic mental outlook , no mock deference has been paid to conventional habits of thought . The times seem to call for outspokenness , if one has anything to say , rather than persuasive propagandism and time ...
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... hands of those who have proved their unfitness for such a trust in the past . My acknowledgments are due to the Chemical Society , the British Science Guild , and the editors and publishers of Science Progress , the Aberdeen University ...
... hands of those who have proved their unfitness for such a trust in the past . My acknowledgments are due to the Chemical Society , the British Science Guild , and the editors and publishers of Science Progress , the Aberdeen University ...
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... hands , and an ever - increasing rapacity and far - sightedness on the part of the egotist to secure it for his own ends . For many a decade now , owing primarily and indisputably to the intellectual achievements of a comparative ...
... hands , and an ever - increasing rapacity and far - sightedness on the part of the egotist to secure it for his own ends . For many a decade now , owing primarily and indisputably to the intellectual achievements of a comparative ...
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... hand and twenty thousand million years on the other . The two parent - elements are the longest lived , and preserve the strain of their less enduring ` children throughout the ages , over periods which exceed those covered even by the ...
... hand and twenty thousand million years on the other . The two parent - elements are the longest lived , and preserve the strain of their less enduring ` children throughout the ages , over periods which exceed those covered even by the ...
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... hand , are the parent - elements , uranium and thorium , which were well studied by chemists for a century , so feeble is their radioactivity and so slow their rate of disintegration , without a suspicion that , in them , the oft ...
... hand , are the parent - elements , uranium and thorium , which were well studied by chemists for a century , so feeble is their radioactivity and so slow their rate of disintegration , without a suspicion that , in them , the oft ...
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