Science and Life: Aberdeen AdressesE. P. Dutton, 1920 - 229 páginas |
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... known the bearing of their special fields of inquiry upon the general 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 ...
... known the bearing of their special fields of inquiry upon the general 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 ...
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... rapidity of these changes among the mixed popula- tion which finds its way into the United States is well known . The subjection of inanimate sources THE NEED FOR ADAPTATION 9 of energy resulted in a 8 SCIENCE AND LIFE.
... rapidity of these changes among the mixed popula- tion which finds its way into the United States is well known . The subjection of inanimate sources THE NEED FOR ADAPTATION 9 of energy resulted in a 8 SCIENCE AND LIFE.
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... known , springs into being with the sunlight of a hundred million years ago augmenting its own . The source of energy by which the modern world lives so profligately is no steady or perennial stream , such as that out of which our ...
... known , springs into being with the sunlight of a hundred million years ago augmenting its own . The source of energy by which the modern world lives so profligately is no steady or perennial stream , such as that out of which our ...
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... known . In a year it evolves about 150 times as much energy as would be evolved in the complete combustion of the same weight of coal . Yet in the fifteen years that have elapsed since the discovery no measurable diminu- tion of this ...
... known . In a year it evolves about 150 times as much energy as would be evolved in the complete combustion of the same weight of coal . Yet in the fifteen years that have elapsed since the discovery no measurable diminu- tion of this ...
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... known change is given out . Just as chemical changes , the disruption and formation of molecules and the rearrangement of the component atoms out of which they are built -such changes as the explosion of dynamite or gunpowder - occur ...
... known change is given out . Just as chemical changes , the disruption and formation of molecules and the rearrangement of the component atoms out of which they are built -such changes as the explosion of dynamite or gunpowder - occur ...
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