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... laws and the methods of physics , biology , etc. This concept of natural law means much to the scientist ; he canalizes upon natural law and scientific method . As a scientist he would give up almost anything rather than renounce this ...
... laws and the methods of physics , biology , etc. This concept of natural law means much to the scientist ; he canalizes upon natural law and scientific method . As a scientist he would give up almost anything rather than renounce this ...
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... laws of time and space , which are only special cases of more general time - space laws which he attempts to apprehend . As apprehender , he has tried with desperate intensity to tran- scend his humanness . Remembering what Kant said ...
... laws of time and space , which are only special cases of more general time - space laws which he attempts to apprehend . As apprehender , he has tried with desperate intensity to tran- scend his humanness . Remembering what Kant said ...
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... laws themselves , as we now know them , may be outgrown ; there may be a process of drift in the basic laws themselves . Similarly it is entirely possible that if man gives himself time enough upon this planet - or even other planets ...
... laws themselves , as we now know them , may be outgrown ; there may be a process of drift in the basic laws themselves . Similarly it is entirely possible that if man gives himself time enough upon this planet - or even other planets ...
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