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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A certain standard of 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 ...
A certain standard of 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 ...
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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 ...
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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A 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 continuously . A running river , a waterfall , is doing ...
A 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 continuously . A running river , a waterfall , is doing ...
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But vital energy or vital force , the energy of a man working or 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 .
But vital energy or vital force , the energy of a man working or 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 .
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At once there came about an enormous increase in the world's work , done no longer by living workers but by the inanimate labourers , water - power , coal and oil , which science had enslaved . So that to - day a single machine puts ...
At once there came about an enormous increase in the world's work , done no longer by living workers but by the inanimate labourers , water - power , coal and oil , which science had enslaved . So that to - day a single machine puts ...
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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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