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...Garrett Putnam Serviss (1851-1929) was an astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer. Serviss showed a talent for explaining scientific details in a way that made them clear to the ordinary reader. Serviss's favorite topic was astronomy, as shown by the fact that of the fifteen books he...

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...city, and the fact that he fits in a small suitcase is even better. – The Knights of Arthur was first published in the January 1958 edition of Galaxy Science Fiction magazine. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)...

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...Astronomy is known as the oldest of the sciences, and it will be the longest-lived because it will always have arcana that have not been penetrated.-Excerpt from the Preface of Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett Serviss...

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... Pg 113 The Triality of the Universe Pg 114 The Totality of Twelve Pg 119 Science Pg 121 Instinct and Evolution Pg 124 How and Why Life Emerg... ...6 Sports Pg 401 Happiness Pg 402 Law Pg 413 Logic and Legality Pg 420 Science and Balance Pg 461 The Pyramidal Absolute Pg 469 Abstr... ...Human Suffering and Hardship Pg 737 Rage and Unhappiness Pg 737 Nature and Science Pg 740 The Vicious Cycles of Civilized Ease and Hardship ... ...tion Pg 1592 The evil of the Undead Pg 1600 Socrates Pg 1601 The evil of Science Pg 1602 The evil of Insularity Pg 1612 Intensity and Purit... ...n to understand what Actual Infinity is, you need to have a Sense of Wonder. Science has found that the Universe we live in is both larger and smal... ...rences made up of smaller things we did not see before magnifying them. What Science once thought was the smallest thing in the Universe, the atom: ... ...ually made up of smaller things called neutrons, protons and electrons. Then Science found that protons and neutrons are actually made up of even s... ...tons and neutrons are actually made up of even smaller things called quarks. Science found that in the study of the smallest things in the Universe... ...nified further to show that the appearance of its uniformity is an illusion. Science has found that the reason there is no uniformity in the Univers...

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...d Indus are tugging us backward at the same time that Indian business and science are leaping into the future. 60% of all Indians are below the age ... ... but we must be able to see as much of the whole as possible. We need the sciences to inform us and enlarge our understanding of things great and sm... ...to inform us and enlarge our understanding of things great and small, but science is not the only achievement of the human mind. As Nietzsche pointe... ...No modern democracy has voters who are all educated in history, political science, economics, the environmental sciences and all the other areas tha... ...he closets are opening and the practice has been spreading. ―As science has researched the sociological, psychological and physiological as... ...her educated groups to accept clearly verifiable findings and theories of science. And I know you in the priesthood are a very well educated group. ... ... from the outside.‖ —―You are right. God provided polio and botulism, science provided immunizations to control God‘s diseases and nitrates adde... ...ates added to our foods to control botulism. God has provided famines and science has provided improved seeds. God has provided so many people that ... .... God has provided so many people that fresh water has been disappearing. Science has developed the means of desalinizing the oceans. But God‘s inve...

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...ledge of other civilizations to make their own kingdom better. The arts and sciences, the inventions and manufactures, the books and instruments were... ...h intimidation and reward, through law and ideal, and through education and science—begun to slow the raging river of ever increasing births and to t... ... pensions of their elders. Longer life spans aided by advances in medical science and governmental or private health plans increased the need for m... ...eats has required a sudden reversal of tradition in order to save the race. Science affirms our common sense, that millions of people are dying from... ...y to educate those who have the power to sway people’s opinion? As I see it science looks at how the universe works, religion and philosophy look at... ...t. Without real freedom good things don’t happen. Religions can’t flourish, science can’t reach its potentials for providing us knowledge, and busin... ... realize that there are highly probable theories in economics and the social sciences that may make them capable of developing economically satisfyin... ...ry of planetary motion. Of course at that time Islam was more accepting of science, which is why they were so far ahead of the Christians. And when... ...every young person can have the opportunity to learn about the mysteries of science, the flow of history, the enduring questions of ethics—we have a...

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........................................................................ 181 SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY ARE SIAMESE TWINS ...................................... ...be given the task of healing the afflicted. In our modern world we look to science for probabilities, such as which potential cure is more likely to ... ...alues to see whether or not we should use it. Our values often trump what science indicates. Commander?‖ -- ―That‘s certainly true Wanda. We alw... ...mary in their thinking. Religion is an emotional decision based on faith, science is an intellectual decision based on empirical evidence. In either... ...ear to us, so ingrained in us, that we don‘t question them. Whether it is science, philosophy or religion --we start with assumptions that we can‘t p... ..., the belief that the universe 33 is merely matter, or that empirical science is the best way of knowing—we are making assumptions that we can‘t... ...e are making assumptions that we can‘t prove. ―Wanda, I believe in science. It is the best way to determine what is true. Science has given u... ...ectric light, the space shuttle, the electric guitar--and the atomic bomb. Science is ‗real‘ knowledge.‖ --―It‘s not that simple Lee, becaus... ... is ‗real‘ knowledge.‖ --―It‘s not that simple Lee, because even science rests on basic assumptions. The observation of scientists has told...

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...oncern by so many of my fellow citizens had soured me on the potentials of science and the hope of technology in delivering a utopian society to us. ... ...ledge of mental and physical health. We study the psychological and social sciences, particularly history. And we study mathematics and the natural ... ...tic surgery, psychiatry or pep pills, you search for a better self through science—not self discipline. That goes against the basic tenets for our pe... ... will have to be raised. Just as births have to be reduced. And as medical science keeps us living longer, the adjustments will have to be ‗adjusted... ...ests while they have had to reduce the creativity emphasis. ―In science things must be measurable. How can creativity be measured on objec... ...both the East and the West. This is along with their rigid mathematics and science curriculum. We have taken a page from your American high schools a... ...ad their work. Our work, at this stage of our development is in those hard sciences that may make life on earth more of a possibility. And of course... ...f a realistic utopia unless we effectively combine the knowledge of modern science, the conveniences allowed by technology, and the aesthetic broade... ...ffled parent even more. We want to give them the best information that the sciences have to offer on child raising. Your President Kennedy said truly...

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...oom! which was adapted for film as Soylent Green. Deathworld is the first in a series of novels begun in 1960 and originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine. It’s the story of Jason dinAlt a professional gambler with psionic skills who finds himself on Pyrrus the deadliest planet to be colonized by humanity. Violent weather, active tectonics, heavy gravit...

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