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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... hands on the levers controlling the primary sources of energy , or , when our fuel supplies are exhausted , relapse into barbarism . At the close of the nineteenth century an extra- ordinary series of discoveries in physics and ...
... hands on the levers controlling the primary sources of energy , or , when our fuel supplies are exhausted , relapse into barbarism . At the close of the nineteenth century an extra- ordinary series of discoveries in physics and ...
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... hands according to the recognised , if lax , standards of private law and commercial morality , and so they had already peacefully penetrated far and wide into the less crowded countries of the earth . Everywhere they were.
... hands according to the recognised , if lax , standards of private law and commercial morality , and so they had already peacefully penetrated far and wide into the less crowded countries of the earth . Everywhere they were.
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... many kinds of war , each requiring totally different consideration . If we are either unduly discouraged on the one hand , or unduly sanguine on the other , as the result of the present conflict , and tolerate vague platitudes about.
... many kinds of war , each requiring totally different consideration . If we are either unduly discouraged on the one hand , or unduly sanguine on the other , as the result of the present conflict , and tolerate vague platitudes about.
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... hand upon the valve . And the hand on this valve is the hand of the chemist and physicist and their executive officer , the engineer . Power , before running to waste and making at best but an idle show , at the bidding of these three ...
... hand upon the valve . And the hand on this valve is the hand of the chemist and physicist and their executive officer , the engineer . Power , before running to waste and making at best but an idle show , at the bidding of these three ...
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... hands have hidden its uglier features has been stripped off . " I know some of you are great readers , and I can recommend to you , for this aspect of science , a book by Professor R. A. Gregory called Discovery , or the Spirit and ...
... hands have hidden its uglier features has been stripped off . " I know some of you are great readers , and I can recommend to you , for this aspect of science , a book by Professor R. A. Gregory called Discovery , or the Spirit and ...
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