Daedalus
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1924
- Retrieved
- Jan 24, 2015
- ISBN
- Ay6-nQEACA
2 memes from this reference
How Science Changes Virtues to Offense
The scientific worker is brought up with the moral values of his neighbours. He is perhaps fortunate if he does not realize that it is his destiny to turn good into evil. An alteration in the scale of human power will render actions bad which were formerly good. Our increased knowledge of hygiene has transformed…
Prescience of Genetic Engineering
As a matter of fact it was not until 1940 that Selkovski invented the purple alga Porpbyrococcus fixator which was to have so great an effect on the world's history. . . . Porpbyrococcus is an enormously efficient nitrogen-fixer and will grow in almost any climate where there are water and traces of potash and…