Science, Myth Or Magic?: A Struggle for ExistenceAllen & Unwin, 2000 - 210 pagini This work attempts to define what is science and, more importantly, what is not science. Tony Barnett faces superstition, magic and charlatanry, political platforms masquerading as scientifically-based programmes and pseudobiology, and gives rational responses to them based on authentic science. He shows how scientific methods can be applied to specific everyday problems and scientifically scrutinizes a number of popular but erroneous beliefs, from the repellent to the absurd. |
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... the Roman gods : to be born under Jupiter was held to make a person joyful and happy . In the European middle ages and later , astrology pervaded society . Herbs were of great importance both for medicine. FASHIONS IN FAIRY TALES 9.
... the Roman gods : to be born under Jupiter was held to make a person joyful and happy . In the European middle ages and later , astrology pervaded society . Herbs were of great importance both for medicine. FASHIONS IN FAIRY TALES 9.
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A Struggle for Existence Samuel Anthony Barnett. society . Herbs were of great importance both for medicine and for cooking , hence some were planetary plants . A reader who still adheres to this doctrine should gather hazelnuts and ...
A Struggle for Existence Samuel Anthony Barnett. society . Herbs were of great importance both for medicine and for cooking , hence some were planetary plants . A reader who still adheres to this doctrine should gather hazelnuts and ...
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... societies , combined magical and medical abilities have been attributed to animals . One story , preserved in ancient Greek writings , concerns a man with a sore toe who fell asleep outside a temple . A tame snake came out and licked ...
... societies , combined magical and medical abilities have been attributed to animals . One story , preserved in ancient Greek writings , concerns a man with a sore toe who fell asleep outside a temple . A tame snake came out and licked ...
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... society . Ownership of a pet has also been said to favour both survival after a heart attack and recovery after surgery . Hence a plausible argument , based on scientific study , can be made for domestic animals as a source of wellbeing ...
... society . Ownership of a pet has also been said to favour both survival after a heart attack and recovery after surgery . Hence a plausible argument , based on scientific study , can be made for domestic animals as a source of wellbeing ...
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STRUGGLE | 33 |
Intermezzo on Instinct | 63 |
Genes and Clones | 71 |
Human Destiny | 82 |
THE IMAGE AND THE REAL | 107 |
EXISTENCE | 119 |
A Bridge Passage | 135 |
Science and Sums | 141 |
Fire From Heaven | 160 |
The Times to Come | 178 |
Glossary | 188 |
Bibliography | 198 |
Index | 204 |
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Pagina 8 - And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad : But when the planets In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea ! shaking of earth ! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture...
Pagina 39 - In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Pagina 72 - Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit ; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Pagina 3 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical pre-dominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.
Pagina 82 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Pagina 181 - But when his own great work is but begun, What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone. Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide ; First strip off all her equipage of Pride ; Deduct what is but Vanity or dress, Or Learning's luxury, or Idleness ; Or tricks to show the stretch of human brain, Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole, or lop th...
Pagina 10 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not: but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
Pagina 121 - Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : We know her woof, her texture ; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.