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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... living above that of animals is a preliminary condition for the development of any of the special qualities of human beings . Philosophies , codes , political systems and religions must follow the lead of science and range themselves in ...
... living above that of animals is a preliminary condition for the development of any of the special qualities of human beings . Philosophies , codes , political systems and religions must follow the lead of science and range themselves in ...
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... living on an immensely more lavish scale than any of his predecessors , not because he has had any great increase in salary in the proper sense , not even because he is , in the mass , somewhat more intelligent , but because he is ...
... living on an immensely more lavish scale than any of his predecessors , not because he has had any great increase in salary in the proper sense , not even because he is , in the mass , somewhat more intelligent , but because he is ...
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... living being is distinguished from a dead one because it is working every second of its life , and death is the stoppage of that work . But it is not only living things that work continu- ously . A running river , a waterfall , is doing ...
... living being is distinguished from a dead one because it is working every second of its life , and death is the stoppage of that work . But it is not only living things that work continu- ously . A running river , a waterfall , is doing ...
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... living , are not special and peculiar to life . They are one with the great flow of inanimate energy reaching us from the sun , which bears the whole world along . Energy , someone may say , is a mere abstraction , a mere term , not a ...
... living , are not special and peculiar to life . They are one with the great flow of inanimate energy reaching us from the sun , which bears the whole world along . Energy , someone may say , is a mere abstraction , a mere term , not a ...
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... living workers but by the inanimate labourers , water - power , coal and oil , which science had enslaved . So that to - day a single machine puts forth a continuous round of labour which an army of men could not keep going for an hour ...
... living workers but by the inanimate labourers , water - power , coal and oil , which science had enslaved . So that to - day a single machine puts forth a continuous round of labour which an army of men could not keep going for an hour ...
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