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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... dominated by , and reflects , the amount of available energy . The energy available for each individual man is his income , and the philosophy which can DIVORCE OF SCIENCE FROM EDUCATION 7 teach him to be 6 SCIENCE AND LIFE.
... dominated by , and reflects , the amount of available energy . The energy available for each individual man is his income , and the philosophy which can DIVORCE OF SCIENCE FROM EDUCATION 7 teach him to be 6 SCIENCE AND LIFE.
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... philosophy long since deteriorated in a soil utterly exhausted by a monotonous alternation of introspective and retrospective agriculture and the bearing of a monotonous succession of the same dwindling harvest . It alone remains ...
... philosophy long since deteriorated in a soil utterly exhausted by a monotonous alternation of introspective and retrospective agriculture and the bearing of a monotonous succession of the same dwindling harvest . It alone remains ...
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... philosopher's stone ever becomes reality , and if means are found for artificially transmuting the elements , or artificially increasing to a sufficient extent the natural rate of their disintegration , the transmutation of the material ...
... philosopher's stone ever becomes reality , and if means are found for artificially transmuting the elements , or artificially increasing to a sufficient extent the natural rate of their disintegration , the transmutation of the material ...
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... philosophy and religions , but by physics , chemistry and engineering . But even on the purely philosophical side the gain is not inconsiderable . In constructing a machine which will run and perform continuous work , the scientific man ...
... philosophy and religions , but by physics , chemistry and engineering . But even on the purely philosophical side the gain is not inconsiderable . In constructing a machine which will run and perform continuous work , the scientific man ...
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... nation - once great in philosophy , literature and the arts , once possessing an empire vastly wider than the material possessions that can be seized and THE PARTING OF THE WAYS 41 fought over by soldiers 40 PHYSICAL FORCE.
... nation - once great in philosophy , literature and the arts , once possessing an empire vastly wider than the material possessions that can be seized and THE PARTING OF THE WAYS 41 fought over by soldiers 40 PHYSICAL FORCE.
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Página 170 - Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower—but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Página 55 - the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe with which pious hands have hidden its uglier features has been stripped off.
Página 218 - towards the improvement and expansion of the Universities of Scotland, in the Faculties of Science and Medicine; also for improving and extending the opportunities for scientific study and research, and for increasing the facilities for acquiring a knowledge of History, Economics, English Literature, and Modern Languages, and such other subjects cognate to a technical
Página 193 - From the same source must come the greatly increased public provision that the Labour Party will insist on being made for scientific investigation and original research, in every branch of knowledge, not to say also for the promotion of music, literature and fine arts, which have been under Capitalism so greatly neglected, and upon which, so the
Página 208 - of the net annual income shall be applied towards the improvement and expansion of the Universities of Scotland, in the Faculties of Science and Medicine; also for improving and extending the opportunities for scientific study and research, and for increasing the facilities for acquiring a knowledge of History, Economics, English Literature, and Modern Languages, and such other subjects cognate to a technical
Página 90 - Natural causes, as we know, are at work which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of the earth and the whole solar system. But though in the course of ages catastrophes have occurred and may yet occur in the heavens, though ancient systems may be dissolved and new systems evolved out of their ruins, the molecules
Página 3 - Science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation."—AJ BALFOUR, Decadence, 1908. THE
Página 55 - in the conviction which has grown up with my growth and strengthened with my strength, that there is no alleviation to the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and
Página 193 - which have been under Capitalism so greatly neglected, and upon which, so the Labour Party holds, any real development of civilisation fundamentally depends. Society, like the individual, does not live by bread alone, does not exist
Página 176 - the establishment of a Faculty of Science in every university implies that of a corresponding number of Professorial Chairs, the incumbents of which need not be so burdened with teaching as to deprive them of ample leisure for original work.