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Luck can never be eliminated from any account , because our understanding of a situation is never exhaustive , because small undetected causes can have far - reaching consequences , and finally because the occurrence of a certain man at ...
Luck can never be eliminated from any account , because our understanding of a situation is never exhaustive , because small undetected causes can have far - reaching consequences , and finally because the occurrence of a certain man at ...
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He should keep in mind and use as his guide the concatenation of pure ideas , such as can be reconstructed when all the mistakes have been made and corrected , but he should never forget the very humble origins of our boldest theories ...
He should keep in mind and use as his guide the concatenation of pure ideas , such as can be reconstructed when all the mistakes have been made and corrected , but he should never forget the very humble origins of our boldest theories ...
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One can never know it too well , and one's whole life is hardly long enough to master it . Few are those who will continue indefinitely to study it , but at least the schools of every grade ought to give their pupils a far better send ...
One can never know it too well , and one's whole life is hardly long enough to master it . Few are those who will continue indefinitely to study it , but at least the schools of every grade ought to give their pupils a far better send ...
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| Title | The History of Science and the New Humanism Carnegie Institution of Washington. Elihu Root lectures on the influence of science and research on current thought Charles K. Colver lectures Charles K. Colver lectures, Brown University Colver lectures Elihu Root lectures at the Carnegie Institution of Washington Elihu Root lectures on the influence of science and research on current thought, Carnegie Institution of Washington Elihu Root lectures, Carnegie Institution of Washington Midland book Issue 20 of Supplementary publication, Carnegie institution of Washington |
| Author | George Sarton |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Braziller, 1956 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 196 pages |
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