Science, Volume 65Moses King, 1927 Since Jan. 1901 the official proceedings and most of the papers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have been included in Science. |
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... nature and variations of mean sea level at selected points along the Atlantic coast . A Committee on Shoreline Investigations was appointed , consisting of Isaiah Bowman , N. M. Fenneman , R. S. Patton , and the writer as chairman ...
... nature and variations of mean sea level at selected points along the Atlantic coast . A Committee on Shoreline Investigations was appointed , consisting of Isaiah Bowman , N. M. Fenneman , R. S. Patton , and the writer as chairman ...
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... nature of science . It is as a doctrine of radical experimentalism that I have before discanted upon it . Radical experimentalism leads to emergent evolutionism , as emergent evolutionism leads to radi- cal experimentalism ; they are ...
... nature of science . It is as a doctrine of radical experimentalism that I have before discanted upon it . Radical experimentalism leads to emergent evolutionism , as emergent evolutionism leads to radi- cal experimentalism ; they are ...
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... nature , the theoretical pre- dictability of the future from the past , the denial that anything essentially new can occur r - these are almost commonplaces of the schools . The explica- bility of all that occurs in the living through a ...
... nature , the theoretical pre- dictability of the future from the past , the denial that anything essentially new can occur r - these are almost commonplaces of the schools . The explica- bility of all that occurs in the living through a ...
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... nature ; only through that is he led to investigate , to invent ; only through that does conduct become re- sponsible . Indeterminism signifies the lack of all basis for learning , for science ; it means absolute irresponsibility in ...
... nature ; only through that is he led to investigate , to invent ; only through that does conduct become re- sponsible . Indeterminism signifies the lack of all basis for learning , for science ; it means absolute irresponsibility in ...
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... nature " ; that is one of the main factors in the course of nature as including man . The desires and aspirations of humanity are determiners in the operation of the universe on the same footing with physical determiners . Furthermore ...
... nature " ; that is one of the main factors in the course of nature as including man . The desires and aspirations of humanity are determiners in the operation of the universe on the same footing with physical determiners . Furthermore ...
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Page 165 - I mean stock to remain in this country, to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Page 140 - State, to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.
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Page 47 - ... either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application violates the first essential of due process of law.
Page 337 - Not of the sunlight, Not of the moonlight, Not of the starlight ! O young Mariner, Down to the haven, Call your companions, Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, Follow The Gleam.
Page 140 - ... a sum not less than two hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, and confined and imprisoned for a period not less than one year nor more than five years.
Page 11 - MEAD, of the research laboratory of applied chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been appointed to a position on the research staff of the Humble Oil and Refining Company at Baytown, Texas.
Page 343 - Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History, at a meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists in New York City in May last.