Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 91. köideJ. Murray, 1922 |
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Page 481 - ... is. This they explore with a courage not unmixed with reverence, and according to methods which, like the quality of a tree, are tested by their fruits. They have but one desire — to know the .truth. They have but one fear — to believe a lie. And if they know the strength of science, and rely upon it with unswerving trust, they also know the limits beyond which science ceases to be strong. They best know that questions offer themselves to thought, which science, as now prosecuted, has not...
Page 14 - It is conceivable that the various kinds of matter, now recognized as different elementary substances, may possess one and the same ultimate or atomic molecule existing in different conditions of movement.
Page 390 - Committee to investigate and report to it the present status and possible outlook of the general problem of an international auxiliary language.
Page 493 - The gods are dead. It must be true. The world, a world of prose, Full-crammed with facts, in science swathed and sheeted, Nods in a stertorous after-dinner doze ! Plangent and sad, in every wind that blows Who will may hear the sorry words repeated : —
Page 12 - Definite and complete in its area as it is, it is but a well-drawn part of a great chart, in which all physical science will be represented with every property of matter shown in dynamical relation to the whole.
Page 495 - The production and distribution of wealth, the growth and effect of administrative machinery, the education of the race, these are cases of general laws which constitute the science of sociology. The discovery of exact laws has only one purpose — the guidance of conduct by means of them. The laws of political economy are as rigid as those of gravitation; wealth distributes itself as surely as water finds its level. But the use we have to make of the laws of gravitation is not to sit down and cry...
Page 414 - The upshot is that radio-active methods of research indicate a moderate multiple of 1000 million years as the duration of the earth's crust as suitable for the habitation of living beings, and that no other considerations from the side of pure physics or astronomy afford any definite presumption against this estimate.
Page 29 - I now think it quite certain that two metals dipped in one electrolytic liquid will (when polarization is done away with) reduce two dry pieces of the same metals when connected each to each by metallic arcs to the same potential...
Page 80 - Most instructive, also, are the recently studied cases of bacteria and yeasts living regularly in certain special tissues of various species of insects, where they exert a definite influence on the metabolism (see the works of Pierantoni, Buchner, Glaser). These no doubt are mere analogies, but they serve. In all probability, then, factors of inheritance exist, and the fundamental problem of Biology is, how are the factors of an organism changed, or how does it acquire new factors? In spite of its...
Page 20 - ... been recognized that it has a far deeper import than as a constant useful in chemical arithmetic. For the ordinary purposes of quantitative analysis, of technology, and of trade, these constants may be said to be now known with sufficient accuracy. But in view of their bearing on the great problem of the essential nature of matter and on the " superlatively grand question, What is the inner mechanism of the atom ? " they become of supreme importance.