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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... material , to follow nature rather than to lead , and to win a grain of knowledge for the communism of science , is to stumble upon secrets such as these unawares . So radium was discovered , and it has been remarked.
... material , to follow nature rather than to lead , and to win a grain of knowledge for the communism of science , is to stumble upon secrets such as these unawares . So radium was discovered , and it has been remarked.
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... material extracted from minerals found in rocks , many of them coeval with the beginning of geological time ? Tracked to earth , the clue to the great secret , for which a thousand telescopes might have swept the sky for ever and in ...
... material extracted from minerals found in rocks , many of them coeval with the beginning of geological time ? Tracked to earth , the clue to the great secret , for which a thousand telescopes might have swept the sky for ever and in ...
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... material would be of little significance compared with the liberation of a source of energy immensely more abundant and powerful than any now available . As foretold of the philosopher's stone , transmutation would be , in a physical ...
... material would be of little significance compared with the liberation of a source of energy immensely more abundant and powerful than any now available . As foretold of the philosopher's stone , transmutation would be , in a physical ...
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... accumu- lated resources of the world in knowledge and material achievements , the statement is true . If it means the ownership of wealth , without which brains , labour and knowledge are all unproductive , the statement is only.
... accumu- lated resources of the world in knowledge and material achievements , the statement is true . If it means the ownership of wealth , without which brains , labour and knowledge are all unproductive , the statement is only.
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... material wrappings in which this energy is done up - that constitute our present food . Now , though less generally appreciated at its true human significance than other scientific developments of the nineteenth century , this is ...
... material wrappings in which this energy is done up - that constitute our present food . Now , though less generally appreciated at its true human significance than other scientific developments of the nineteenth century , this is ...
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