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... universe , partly as a way of thinking that applied to living matter and in time even to the nature of man , the spirit of discovery has , through medicine and engineer- ing , done much more than change the face of the earth . It has ...
... universe , partly as a way of thinking that applied to living matter and in time even to the nature of man , the spirit of discovery has , through medicine and engineer- ing , done much more than change the face of the earth . It has ...
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... universe within which the scientific 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 ...
... universe within which the scientific 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 ...
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... universe . This visible texture we are only beginning to understand . The world of the electron microscope is ... universe , so it is entirely possible that man's psycho- logical and social nature may represent refinements and elabora ...
... universe . This visible texture we are only beginning to understand . The world of the electron microscope is ... universe , so it is entirely possible that man's psycho- logical and social nature may represent refinements and elabora ...
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Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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