Science and Life: Aberdeen AdressesE. P. Dutton, 1920 - 229 páginas |
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... means of livelihood of the world , the new inanimate servant of science , like the slaves of the ancients , would prove a dangerous helpmate , and the mushroom civilisation it had engendered would dissolve like the historic empires of ...
... means of livelihood of the world , the new inanimate servant of science , like the slaves of the ancients , would prove a dangerous helpmate , and the mushroom civilisation it had engendered would dissolve like the historic empires of ...
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... 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 would be of little significance compared with the ...
... 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 would be of little significance compared with the ...
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... means wealth , that is , the accumu- lated resources of the world in knowledge and material achievements , the statement is true . If it means the ownership of wealth , without which brains , labour and knowledge are all unproductive ...
... means wealth , that is , the accumu- lated resources of the world in knowledge and material achievements , the statement is true . If it means the ownership of wealth , without which brains , labour and knowledge are all unproductive ...
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... means the individual system of ownership of wealth , and that under another system brains , labour and knowledge would be powerless to advance humanity , the statement is not true . From the point of view of the community , capital is ...
... means the individual system of ownership of wealth , and that under another system brains , labour and knowledge would be powerless to advance humanity , the statement is not true . From the point of view of the community , capital is ...
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... mean not only that there is no life on the moon , but also no movement of anything , and no change of any kind . Energy , in general , is due to motion . If the things moving are masses large enough to see , we speak of their mechanical ...
... mean not only that there is no life on the moon , but also no movement of anything , and no change of any kind . Energy , in general , is due to motion . If the things moving are masses large enough to see , we speak of their mechanical ...
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