Science, Volume 20John Michels (Journalist) American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1904 - Science 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. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acid advance Agriculture alkaloids American animal arts Association autotomy axiom of Archimedes biological body Botanical bureau cells cent chemical chemistry Chicago CHIG College congress course culture degree discovery discussion disease doctor of laws engineering enzymes experiments fact fessor fishes Flathead Lake geology geometry German given graduate Harvard Harvard University ical important increase institutions interest investigation Island John John Bell Hatcher Journal knowledge laboratory large number Lobachevski Lord Kelvin matter medicine ment Meteorological methods metric system Museum natural selection nature Observatory organic Paleozoic paper physical physiological plants Plesiosaurs practical present president Professor psychology published radium recent schools scientific Section seed selection sity Society Speakers species sugar tained teachers teaching theory tion trophoblast tumulus United UNIV University versity William York
Popular passages
Page 98 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work...
Page 129 - I pledge allegiance to my flag, and to the Republic for which it stands ; one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Page 147 - HISTORY warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions...
Page 98 - ... is a clear, cold logic engine with all its parts of equal strength and in smooth working order; ready like a steam engine to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Page 630 - Every beast loveth his like, and every man loveth his neighbour. All flesh consorteth according to kind, and a man will cleave to his like.
Page 98 - ... whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations ; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Page 346 - Guards the dead hero with the dreadful shade; And now before, and now behind he stood: Thus in the centre of some gloomy wood, With many a step, the lioness surrounds Her tawny young, beset by men and hounds; Elate her heart, and rousing all her powers, Dark o'er the fiery balls each hanging eyebrow lours.
Page 64 - Spec., accumulated and accepted knowledge which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws; knowledge classified and made available in work, life, or the search for truth ; comprehensive, profound, or philosophical knowledge.
Page 448 - Weather influences, an empirical study of the mental and physiological effects of definite meteorological conditions.
Page 96 - Natural philosophy, as a speculative science, I imagine, we have none ; and perhaps I may think I have reason to say, we never shall be able to make a science of it...