Science and Life: Aberdeen AdressesE. P. Dutton, 1920 - 229 páginas |
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... whole accumulated wisdom of the ages really sterile and impotent before this 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 ...
... whole accumulated wisdom of the ages really sterile and impotent before this 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 ...
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... whole world nearer to the glow . Not at its door , surely , should be laid the consequences if the energy of the falling waterdrops has been drained to provide the machinery of destruction , rather than of life . THE SOURCE OF COSMICAL ...
... whole world nearer to the glow . Not at its door , surely , should be laid the consequences if the energy of the falling waterdrops has been drained to provide the machinery of destruction , rather than of life . THE SOURCE OF COSMICAL ...
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... whole precarious 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 ...
... whole precarious 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 ...
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... whole fabric of human history . Rays of a fundamentally new character are given out by radium , of various kinds and intense interest , and a thousand new phenomena make themselves mani- fest , but like galley slaves and fertilisers ...
... whole fabric of human history . Rays of a fundamentally new character are given out by radium , of various kinds and intense interest , and a thousand new phenomena make themselves mani- fest , but like galley slaves and fertilisers ...
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... whole edifice of chemical science was totter- ing to its fall as the result of the discovery of the intra - atomic changes of the radio - elements , is one that has always been too absurd to call for reply . But for that science and its ...
... whole edifice of chemical science was totter- ing to its fall as the result of the discovery of the intra - atomic changes of the radio - elements , is one that has always been too absurd to call for reply . But for that science and its ...
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