Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 94, no. 2)American Philosophical Society |
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الصفحة 168 - Observing assistants were paid in part by a grant from the Penrose fund of the American Philosophical Society and in part by the Steward Observatory.
الصفحة 95 - But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas --that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.
الصفحة 129 - Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups...
الصفحة 117 - We, the representatives of the Soviet Michurinian trend, contend that inheritance of characters acquired by plants and animals in the process of their development is possible and necessary.
الصفحة 91 - A university or college may not impose any limitation upon the teacher's freedom in the exposition of his own subject in the classroom or in addresses and publications outside the college...
الصفحة 140 - ... nor even in essential oil of turpentine, unless it be digested in a strong heat. The varnish which it makes with ether is very weak, and of little use. With respect to its medicinal qualities, Mr. White has found it in many cases a good pectoral medicine, and very balsamic." (Dr. James Smith, in "Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales," by John White, Esq., Surgeon-General to the Settlement, 1790, p.
الصفحة 93 - Jr., quoting Conant's annual report for 1947 as follows : The criteria for joining a community of scholars are in some ways unique. They are not to be confused with the requirements of a Federal bureau. For example, I can imagine a naive scientist or a philosopher with strong loyalties to the advancement of civilization and the unity of the world who would be a questionable asset to a government department charged with negotiations with other nations ; the same man, on the other hand, because of...
الصفحة 128 - Nature committed to man as a sacred deposite, have been secured. Here, we have been enabled, under the favour of Divine Providence, to establish a government of laws and not of men ; a government, which secures to its citizens equal rights and equal liberty ; and which offers an asylum to the good, to the persecuted, and to the oppressed of other climes.
الصفحة 104 - Historically freedom emerges when internal checks can be substituted for external constraint, and, conversely, freedom is endangered if a free community's shared values are no longer sufficiently vigorous to create the moral cohesion on which the discipline of free men rests. When you pulverize a rock, you have dust. When it rains on dust, you have mud. That, in brief, is the problem of...
الصفحة 100 - big" industry, backed by "big" laboratories and "big" science. No one who reads James P. Baxter's official history of the role of science In our war effort — Scientists against Time " — can fail to be aware of the crucial importance of the relationship, or to overlook the extent to which it was the "open" and competitive character of our scientific life that contributed vital ideas from all over the world. I have already stressed the international interplay of men and ideas that made the atomic...