Science and Life: Aberdeen AdressesE. P. Dutton, 1920 - 229 páginas |
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Página vii
... attempted to show how fundamentally and beyond the possibility of escape our knowledge and control of the inanimate world underlies and de- termines the development of all the potentialities of life . Admittedly , the attempt is a very ...
... attempted to show how fundamentally and beyond the possibility of escape our knowledge and control of the inanimate world underlies and de- termines the development of all the potentialities of life . Admittedly , the attempt is a very ...
Página viii
... attempted to minimise it . 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 ...
... attempted to minimise it . 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 ...
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... attempt to transmute base - metal into gold , or to discover the secret of perpetual motion , would be to tread a well - trodden highway leading nowhere . But to exhibit a divine curiosity in an abstruse phenomenon , such as the rays ...
... attempt to transmute base - metal into gold , or to discover the secret of perpetual motion , would be to tread a well - trodden highway leading nowhere . But to exhibit a divine curiosity in an abstruse phenomenon , such as the rays ...
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... attempted to forecast , from the experience of the past , the future of a world able to draw at will upon a virtually infinite supply of energy , one would be compelled to depict it simply as a veritable Garden of Eden . IS SCIENCE NEW ...
... attempted to forecast , from the experience of the past , the future of a world able to draw at will upon a virtually infinite supply of energy , one would be compelled to depict it simply as a veritable Garden of Eden . IS SCIENCE NEW ...
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... attempts to do so , it never will . But the same was said , by the same type of mind , about flying before men flew , and probably of every new and difficult step so far accomplished in the ascent of man . PHYSICAL FORCE - MAN'S SERVANT ...
... attempts to do so , it never will . But the same was said , by the same type of mind , about flying before men flew , and probably of every new and difficult step so far accomplished in the ascent of man . PHYSICAL FORCE - MAN'S SERVANT ...
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