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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... pure distilled essence of scientific endeavour . 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 ...
... pure distilled essence of scientific endeavour . 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 ...
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... pure gain to the community . Energy itself is indestructible , and in itself is only valuable in its conversion from what may be called higher to lower forms . The natural transformations occur without loss of the absolute amount of ...
... pure gain to the community . Energy itself is indestructible , and in itself is only valuable in its conversion from what may be called higher to lower forms . The natural transformations occur without loss of the absolute amount of ...
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... pure condition for chemical examination . The most slowly changing members , on the other hand , are the parent - elements , uranium and thorium , which were well studied by chemists for a century , so feeble is their radioactivity and ...
... pure condition for chemical examination . The most slowly changing members , on the other hand , are the parent - elements , uranium and thorium , which were well studied by chemists for a century , so feeble is their radioactivity and ...
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... pure physical energy required for the day's work without any necessity of absorbing at the same time the useless husks - the material wrappings in which this energy is done up - that constitute our present food . Now , though less ...
... pure physical energy required for the day's work without any necessity of absorbing at the same time the useless husks - the material wrappings in which this energy is done up - that constitute our present food . Now , though less ...
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... pure and simple . Life , the mystifier , scarcely complicated it . The pale , pursuing spectre which has dogged the ages and dragged them down is to be exorcised , not by mystical philosophy and religions , but by physics , chemistry ...
... pure and simple . Life , the mystifier , scarcely complicated it . The pale , pursuing spectre which has dogged the ages and dragged them down is to be exorcised , not by mystical philosophy and religions , but by physics , chemistry ...
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