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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... learning , without which educational systems are but useless machinery without motive power . In experimental science in Scotland the greatest need for reform exists . The association of the Honours M.A. with the B.Sc. so favours ...
... learning , without which educational systems are but useless machinery without motive power . In experimental science in Scotland the greatest need for reform exists . The association of the Honours M.A. with the B.Sc. so favours ...
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... learning and the rediscovery of the civilisation of ancient and extinct races are essentially imitative , self - sufficing and retrospective . I would not waste your or my own time with a theme so trite , and which only in academical ...
... learning and the rediscovery of the civilisation of ancient and extinct races are essentially imitative , self - sufficing and retrospective . I would not waste your or my own time with a theme so trite , and which only in academical ...
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... science — we want a great deal more money for science - we want more teachers , we want more learners , but in the main the battle is won . If there are any sceptics to - day they must surely have been converted by the achieve- ments of.
... science — we want a great deal more money for science - we want more teachers , we want more learners , but in the main the battle is won . If there are any sceptics to - day they must surely have been converted by the achieve- ments of.
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... learning holding the keys of knowledge can neither enter in themselves nor allow others to do so . Youth has so far preserved science from that fate , but there is another powerfully con- tributive factor in the usefulness of much of ...
... learning holding the keys of knowledge can neither enter in themselves nor allow others to do so . Youth has so far preserved science from that fate , but there is another powerfully con- tributive factor in the usefulness of much of ...
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... learning at the time . Thus , to take the well - known quotation from Keats : - " Beauty is truth , truth beauty , —that is all Ye know on earth , and all ye need to know , " and to make of it the motto of a university to - day would be ...
... learning at the time . Thus , to take the well - known quotation from Keats : - " Beauty is truth , truth beauty , —that is all Ye know on earth , and all ye need to know , " and to make of it the motto of a university to - day would be ...
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