The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 65McClure, Phillips and Company, 1904 - Science |
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But the fact remains , the value of science lies in its relation to human conduct . The value of knowledge lies in the use we can make of it . As each thought of the mind tends to work itself out in action , so does each accession of ...
But the fact remains , the value of science lies in its relation to human conduct . The value of knowledge lies in the use we can make of it . As each thought of the mind tends to work itself out in action , so does each accession of ...
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... relation had the movements of the flowers to the vanished glaciers which have left their imprint in lake and moraine , in erratic and sheep - back and furrowed rock , over so much of the surface of Colorado ? In zoology there is equal ...
... relation had the movements of the flowers to the vanished glaciers which have left their imprint in lake and moraine , in erratic and sheep - back and furrowed rock , over so much of the surface of Colorado ? In zoology there is equal ...
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... relations of different kinds of matter one to another , and those phenomena which accompany material changes , i . e . , alteration in the composition of substances . ( 3 ) Biology , which deals with vital phenomena ; current , as in ...
... relations of different kinds of matter one to another , and those phenomena which accompany material changes , i . e . , alteration in the composition of substances . ( 3 ) Biology , which deals with vital phenomena ; current , as in ...
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... relations and the laws of thought , and here develops a system self - contained , i . e . , requiring no further appeal to the physical world or to human ex- perience . A procedure similar to this is indeed frequently employed in the ...
... relations and the laws of thought , and here develops a system self - contained , i . e . , requiring no further appeal to the physical world or to human ex- perience . A procedure similar to this is indeed frequently employed in the ...
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... relations are accepted only when they are not contradicted by the order of nature . And sometimes , even if the ... relation to truth and error . The aim of physical science , according to the earlier writers , was the explanation of the ...
... relations are accepted only when they are not contradicted by the order of nature . And sometimes , even if the ... relation to truth and error . The aim of physical science , according to the earlier writers , was the explanation of the ...
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Page 289 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
Page 531 - I am labouring to lay the foundation, not of any sect or doctrine, but of human utility and power.
Page 258 - And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Page 337 - It is a pity to see Lord Monboddo publish such notions as he has done: a man of sense, and of so much elegant learning. There would be little in a fool doing it; we should only laugh; but when a wise man does it we are sorry. Other people have strange notions; but they conceal them. If they have tails they hide them; but Monboddo is as jealous of his tail as a squirrel.
Page 211 - There can also be little doubt that the tendency to vary in the same manner has often been so strong that all the individuals of the same species have been similarly modified without the aid of any form of selection.
Page 532 - It can be read maliciously, but abstain. She says of Romance : ' The young who avoid that region escape the title of Fool at the cost of a celestial crown.
Page 506 - Natural science must ever regard knowledge as the product of irrational conditions, for in the last resort it knows no others. It must always regard knowledge as rational, or else science itself disappears. In addition, therefore, to the difficulty of extracting from experience beliefs which experience contradicts, we are confronted with the difficulty of harmonising the pedigree of our beliefs with their title to authority. The more successful we are in explaining their origin, the more doubt we...
Page 265 - Lazear also experimented on himself at the same time, but was not infected. Some days later, while in the yellow-fever ward, he was bitten by a mosquito and noted the fact carefully. He acquired the disease in its most terrible form and died a martyr to science and a true hero. No other fatality occurred among the brave men who, in the course of the experiments, willingly exposed themselves to the infection of the dreaded disease. A camp was especially constructed for the experiments about 4 miles...