Science and Life: Aberdeen AddressesThis work is a collection of addresses and articles written at Aberdeen University regarding the interaction between science and society. |
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of the past century of science , should have been the golden opportunity of statesmen and humanitarians and the raw material out of which the sum total of human happiness could have been augmented . Instead , it has but revealed a ...
of the past century of science , should have been the golden opportunity of statesmen and humanitarians and the raw material out of which the sum total of human happiness could have been augmented . Instead , it has but revealed a ...
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By To the altruist , to whom wealth and human happiness are far from being synonyms , science is viewed with distrust . A phrase " like the growing materialism of the age " is a curious betrayal of a habit of thought which would be ...
By To the altruist , to whom wealth and human happiness are far from being synonyms , science is viewed with distrust . A phrase " like the growing materialism of the age " is a curious betrayal of a habit of thought which would be ...
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... ages really sterile and impotent before this problem of how to use wealth , of how to secure that a greater part of the sum - total of increased material resources shall be made to contribute to the sum - total of human happiness ?
... ages really sterile and impotent before this problem of how to use wealth , of how to secure that a greater part of the sum - total of increased material resources shall be made to contribute to the sum - total of human happiness ?
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There arises the challenge : Is there a single practical branch of human thought or knowledge which has been left untouched , nay , more , which has not been altered to its very foundations , by the progress of science ?
There arises the challenge : Is there a single practical branch of human thought or knowledge which has been left untouched , nay , more , which has not been altered to its very foundations , by the progress of science ?
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It is not difficult to comprehend the precise condition which science has introduced into human affairs , and to which every feature peculiar to the present age can be more or less directly traced . It is the effective control and ...
It is not difficult to comprehend the precise condition which science has introduced into human affairs , and to which every feature peculiar to the present age can be more or less directly traced . It is the effective control and ...
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| Título | Science and Life: Aberdeen Addresses |
| Autor | Frederick Soddy |
| Editor | J. Murray, 1920 |
| N.º de páginas | 229 páginas |
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