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... Universe - what must be the relation between science , or the ever - expanding knowledge of man , and the long since van- ished conceptions of the universe , or of God , frozen in ancient man - made creeds ? Obviously one of inescapable ...
... Universe - what must be the relation between science , or the ever - expanding knowledge of man , and the long since van- ished conceptions of the universe , or of God , frozen in ancient man - made creeds ? Obviously one of inescapable ...
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... Universe . ' " In this naturalistic universe , in this universe of infinite space and time , man , the two - handed animal whose average height is about five feet and a half and whose age rarely ex- ceeds a hundred years , is indeed a ...
... Universe . ' " In this naturalistic universe , in this universe of infinite space and time , man , the two - handed animal whose average height is about five feet and a half and whose age rarely ex- ceeds a hundred years , is indeed a ...
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... universe . When there was comparatively little known , it was relatively easy to know or to pretend to know all . Nearly three thousand years ago a Greek philosopher could look about the universe and say " The All Is One , " or sum up ...
... universe . When there was comparatively little known , it was relatively easy to know or to pretend to know all . Nearly three thousand years ago a Greek philosopher could look about the universe and say " The All Is One , " or sum up ...
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012114125 PAGE I ALBERT EINSTEIN | 3 |
BERTRAND RUSSELL | 9 |
JOHN DEWEY | 21 |
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