Science and Life: Aberdeen AdressesE. P. Dutton, 1920 - 229 páginas |
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... problems of life and belief . Written at a time when millions of young men were being killed in consequence of the destinies of scientific nations being in the hands of people of archaic mental outlook , no mock deference has been paid ...
... problems of life and belief . Written at a time when millions of young men were being killed in consequence of the destinies of scientific nations being in the hands of people of archaic mental outlook , no mock deference has been paid ...
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... problem that its solution could never be of the least possible use to anyone , is still revered as the pure distilled essence of scientific endeavour . That this cloisteral attitude is essential to the highest and most practical ...
... problem that its solution could never be of the least possible use to anyone , is still revered as the pure distilled essence of scientific endeavour . That this cloisteral attitude is essential to the highest and most practical ...
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... problem of how to use wealth , of how to secure that a greater part of the sum - total of increased material resources shall be made to contribute to the sum - total of human happiness ? For at present , it has not only shown itself ...
... problem of how to use wealth , of how to secure that a greater part of the sum - total of increased material resources shall be made to contribute to the sum - total of human happiness ? For at present , it has not only shown itself ...
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... problems followed the proof that the energy of radioactive substances was evolved in new kinds of change , which are distinguished from those studied in chemistry in two ways . In the first place they are more fundamental , and concern ...
... problems followed the proof that the energy of radioactive substances was evolved in new kinds of change , which are distinguished from those studied in chemistry in two ways . In the first place they are more fundamental , and concern ...
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... problem completely apprehended , a problem of energy , pure and simple . Life , the mystifier , scarcely complicated it . The pale , pursuing spectre which has dogged the ages and dragged them down is to be exorcised , not by mystical ...
... problem completely apprehended , a problem of energy , pure and simple . Life , the mystifier , scarcely complicated it . The pale , pursuing spectre which has dogged the ages and dragged them down is to be exorcised , not by mystical ...
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