Science and Life: Aberdeen AddressesJ. Murray, 1920 - 229 páginas This work is a collection of addresses and articles written at Aberdeen University regarding the interaction between science and society. |
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... give up every preconceived notion and to follow humbly wherever and to whatsoever abysses Nature leads , " as Huxley said . The consensus arrived at when a number of minds , so striving , reach by different roads the same result in ...
... give up every preconceived notion and to follow humbly wherever and to whatsoever abysses Nature leads , " as Huxley said . The consensus arrived at when a number of minds , so striving , reach by different roads the same result in ...
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... in some of the institutions for educational research in America , in order to eliminate what is unnecessary and retro- grade , the school period ought to suffice to give every child of the standard of intelligence admitting to the.
... in some of the institutions for educational research in America , in order to eliminate what is unnecessary and retro- grade , the school period ought to suffice to give every child of the standard of intelligence admitting to the.
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... give money for science and scientific research , because under the existing system it will be diverted . Chemistry here would have been actually better off under the system that was in vogue before 1889 . The wealth that has poured into ...
... give money for science and scientific research , because under the existing system it will be diverted . Chemistry here would have been actually better off under the system that was in vogue before 1889 . The wealth that has poured into ...
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... gives out as much heat as the best fuel every three days , and in the fifteen years that have elapsed since it was first isolated , a quantity of energy nearly two thousand times as much as is obtainable from fuel has been given out by ...
... gives out as much heat as the best fuel every three days , and in the fifteen years that have elapsed since it was first isolated , a quantity of energy nearly two thousand times as much as is obtainable from fuel has been given out by ...
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... gives the rate of change as 100th part per year . This is more than fifty times slower than the rate of change of radium itself , which has long been established to be about 2600th part per year . On the other hand the original uranium ...
... gives the rate of change as 100th part per year . This is more than fifty times slower than the rate of change of radium itself , which has long been established to be about 2600th part per year . On the other hand the original uranium ...
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