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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... knowledge and control of the inanimate world underlies and de- termines the development of all the potentialities of life . Admittedly , the attempt is a very imperfect one , but scientific investigators too seldom endeavour at all to ...
... knowledge and control of the inanimate world underlies and de- termines the development of all the potentialities of life . Admittedly , the attempt is a very imperfect one , but scientific investigators too seldom endeavour at all to ...
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... knowledge , and its silent appropriation of this dominant function , amid the din of political and religious strife , is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation . " - A . J. BALFOUR ...
... knowledge , and its silent appropriation of this dominant function , amid the din of political and religious strife , is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation . " - A . J. BALFOUR ...
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... neither theoretical nor on paper , but actual and in practice . The results of those who labour in the fields of knowledge for its own sake are published freely and THE MATERIAL BASIS OF LIFE 3 pooled in the general 2 SCIENCE AND LIFE.
... neither theoretical nor on paper , but actual and in practice . The results of those who labour in the fields of knowledge for its own sake are published freely and THE MATERIAL BASIS OF LIFE 3 pooled in the general 2 SCIENCE AND LIFE.
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... 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 long unscientific history of man . The essential ...
... 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 long unscientific history of man . The essential ...
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... knowledge , won and being won by the perfection of the extrospective or experimental method , is producing a luxuriant , if tangled , growth . THE ENERGY OF COAL . So far as the mere multiplication of the physical capacity of the race ...
... knowledge , won and being won by the perfection of the extrospective or experimental method , is producing a luxuriant , if tangled , growth . THE ENERGY OF COAL . So far as the mere multiplication of the physical capacity of the race ...
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