Science, Volume 44

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John Michels (Journalist)
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1916
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.
 

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Page 306 - Fund was founded in 1902, under the direction of the Royal College of * Physicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and Is governed by representatives of many medical and scientific institutions.
Page 368 - Was it not great? did not he throw on God (He loves the burthen) God's task to make the heavenly period Perfect the earthen ? Did not he magnify the mind, show clear Just what it all meant?
Page 15 - June to attend the meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at...
Page 529 - The essential requirements to securing an invitation are that the applicant shall be a citizen of the United States, shall be between 22 and 30 years of age, a graduate of a medical school legally authorized to confer the degree of doctor of medicine, shall be of good moral character and habits, and shall have had at least one year's hospital training as an interne, after graduation.
Page 603 - Dr. John H. Finley, president of the University of the State of New York, in a...
Page 417 - Again, in their theory of form, both Aristotle and subsequent logicians came very near to the theory of the logical variable. But to come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two very different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Page 514 - That which stirs their pulses is the love of knowledge and the joy of discovery of the causes of things sung by the old poet — the supreme delight of extending the realm of law and order ever farther towards the unattainable goals of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, between which our little race of life is run.
Page 570 - THE second annual report of the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research for the year 1916-17 has been published.
Page 264 - That there be formed a National Research Council, whose purpose shall be to bring into cooperation existing governmental, educational, industrial and other research organizations with the object of encouraging the investigation of natural phenomena, the increased use of scientific research in the development of American industries, the employment of scientific methods in strengthening the national defense, and such other applications of science as will promote the national security and welfare. That...
Page 409 - I am going to emphasise the importance of theory in science. But to avoid misconception I most emphatically state that I do not consider one source as in any sense nobler than the other, or intrinsically more interesting.

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