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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That this cloisteral attitude is essential to the highest and most practical discovery is patent from a casual examination of the history of science . But whether it is sane to leave entirely to the unscientific wisdom of the age the ...
That this cloisteral attitude is essential to the highest and most practical discovery is patent from a casual examination of the history of science . But whether it is sane to leave entirely to the unscientific wisdom of the age the ...
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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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No better illustration could be chosen of the spirit of absolute detachment from practical affairs , in which the highest and most practical knowledge is won , than the familiar history of the march of events which , in the closing ...
No better illustration could be chosen of the spirit of absolute detachment from practical affairs , in which the highest and most practical knowledge is won , than the familiar history of the march of events which , in the closing ...
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The more deeply we ponder on this as a practical question we shall find , I think , that the first step is to narrow the issue and to ask whether , and if so how , wars , such as this war that is now being waged , can be prevented from ...
The more deeply we ponder on this as a practical question we shall find , I think , that the first step is to narrow the issue and to ask whether , and if so how , wars , such as this war that is now being waged , can be prevented from ...
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I indicate them merely to show how very far from practical politics any attempt to banish war and the thought of war from the world at one step is likely for long ...
I indicate them merely to show how very far from practical politics any attempt to banish war and the thought of war from the world at one step is likely for long ...
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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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