Science and the Modern World
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1926
- Publisher
- CUP Archive
- Retrieved
- May 29, 2014
- ISBN
- 0RY7AAAAIA
3 memes from this reference
Against Mindfulness
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without…
Blurred Boundaries in the Sciences
Science is taking on a new aspect which is neither purely physical nor purely biological. It is becoming the study of organisms. Biology is the Study of the larger organisms; whereas physics is the study of the smaller organisms.
When Science Became a Profession
The possibilities of modem technology were first in practice realised in England by the energy of a prosperous middle class. Accordingly, the industrial revolution started there. But the Germans explicitly realised the methods by which the deeper veins in the mine of science could be reached. In their technological…