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- [John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly…
- But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather crude…
- One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been…
- When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than…
- The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed…
- The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For one…
- It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like…
- The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations-more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects…
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