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The greatness of a physicist to - day lies mainly in the quality of his insight into nature . What is wanted for progress are not some really clever or highly imaginative ideas of nature but , so to say , God's ideas of nature .
The greatness of a physicist to - day lies mainly in the quality of his insight into nature . What is wanted for progress are not some really clever or highly imaginative ideas of nature but , so to say , God's ideas of nature .
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Those natural history societies encouraging the right methods , whether they be modern like the British Empire Naturalists ' Association , the British Trust for Ornithology , the Cornwall and Devon Bird - Watching Societies , or older ...
Those natural history societies encouraging the right methods , whether they be modern like the British Empire Naturalists ' Association , the British Trust for Ornithology , the Cornwall and Devon Bird - Watching Societies , or older ...
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Nature does clothe our valleys and hillsides with trees , but there are two points to be noted about this . In the first place nature works very slowly , and in the second place nature does not always give us the trees that we want .
Nature does clothe our valleys and hillsides with trees , but there are two points to be noted about this . In the first place nature works very slowly , and in the second place nature does not always give us the trees that we want .
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ART PACE 1 1 Imperial Defence and the International Situation | 1 |
The Perversion of Mountaineering | 2 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volumes 268-269 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1937 |
| Original from | University of Georgia Libraries |
| Digitized | 10 Jun 2022 |
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