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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... no mock deference has been paid to conventional habits of thought . The times seem to call for outspokenness , if one has anything to say , rather than persuasive propagandism and time - serving compromise . It may be recalled that vii.
... no mock deference has been paid to conventional habits of thought . The times seem to call for outspokenness , if one has anything to say , rather than persuasive propagandism and time - serving compromise . It may be recalled that vii.
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... thought , a steady shower of material benefits has been raining down upon humanity , and for these benefits men have fought in the traditional manner of the struggle when the fickle sunlight was the sole hazardous income of the world ...
... thought , a steady shower of material benefits has been raining down upon humanity , and for these benefits men have fought in the traditional manner of the struggle when the fickle sunlight was the sole hazardous income of the world ...
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... thought which would be ludicrous if it were not fraught with disaster . The physical conditions of existence are more fundamental than the aesthetic , moral or intellectual . A child must be fed before it can be taught . A certain ...
... thought which would be ludicrous if it were not fraught with disaster . The physical conditions of existence are more fundamental than the aesthetic , moral or intellectual . A child must be fed before it can be taught . A certain ...
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... thought or know- ledge which has been left untouched , nay , more , which has not been altered to its very foundations , by the progress of science ? The education of those to whom for the most part is entrusted the happi- ness and ...
... thought or know- ledge which has been left untouched , nay , more , which has not been altered to its very foundations , by the progress of science ? The education of those to whom for the most part is entrusted the happi- ness and ...
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... thought of the past , may have perpetuated an anachronism , safe enough in a monastery , but infinitely more dangerous than innovation where it concerns the education of future generations of public men . If men so trained had been ...
... thought of the past , may have perpetuated an anachronism , safe enough in a monastery , but infinitely more dangerous than innovation where it concerns the education of future generations of public men . If men so trained had been ...
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