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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I trust , in so far as I have not been successful , that it may be pardoned in view of the hitherto almost complete neglect by the intellectual world of the theme , for philosophies “ of lighter and less solid wood .
I trust , in so far as I have not been successful , that it may be pardoned in view of the hitherto almost complete neglect by the intellectual world of the theme , for philosophies “ of lighter and less solid wood .
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... hitherto , for any one country , an essentially unchanging physical environment . Emigration to other countries , as in the population of the Americas , produces corresponding marked changes of human nature , and the rapidity of ...
... hitherto , for any one country , an essentially unchanging physical environment . Emigration to other countries , as in the population of the Americas , produces corresponding marked changes of human nature , and the rapidity of ...
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... outpouring of energy which , making all allowance for the vast scale of cosmical events , possesses a character of permanence and endurance foreign to the processes and events which hitherto had come within the ken of science .
... outpouring of energy which , making all allowance for the vast scale of cosmical events , possesses a character of permanence and endurance foreign to the processes and events which hitherto had come within the ken of science .
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Tracked to earth , the clue to the great secret , for which a thousand telescopes might have swept the sky for ever and in vain , lay in a scrap of matter , dowered with something of the same inexhaustible radiance that hitherto has ...
Tracked to earth , the clue to the great secret , for which a thousand telescopes might have swept the sky for ever and in vain , lay in a scrap of matter , dowered with something of the same inexhaustible radiance that hitherto has ...
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We can at present only watch and follow them . We have not yet succeeded in interfering with them or quickening their rate . RADIOACTIVITY AND TRANSMUTATION 35 Hitherto in the chemical changes , 34 PHYSICAL FORCE.
We can at present only watch and follow them . We have not yet succeeded in interfering with them or quickening their rate . RADIOACTIVITY AND TRANSMUTATION 35 Hitherto in the chemical changes , 34 PHYSICAL FORCE.
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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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