 The rapid progress true science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter.  The Eclectic Review - Сторінка 451редактори - 1818Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Richard C. Dorf - 2001 - 520 стор.
...innovations will lead to a new burst of material and social progress. Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1780: "It is impossible to imagine the height to which may...in a thousand years, the power of man over matter." A recent book challenges this optimism by raising the issues of externalities such as pollution and... | |
 | David Garrioch - 2002 - 397 стор.
...twenty years after 1760 public attitudes to medicine moved from cynicism to extraordinary confidence. "It is impossible to imagine the height to which may...in a thousand years, the power of man over matter," wrote Benjamin Franklin from Paris in 1780. "All diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured,... | |
 | Gerald Joseph Gruman - 2003 - 246 стор.
...desired a greater longevity, he would ant breakthrough in science and medicine. VIII THE PHILOSOPHES The rapid progress true science now makes, occasions...matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity, and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish... | |
 | Lewis Vaughn, Austin Dacey - 2003 - 244 стор.
...Franklin, an Enlightenment scientist himself, could not suppress his optimism about the future. He wrote, "The rapid Progress true Science now makes, occasions...carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter."11 Renaissance thinkers looked back to the good old days of the classical period. Children... | |
 | Michael Brian Schiffer - 2003 - 408 стор.
...brightened by new science and new technologies. In a 1780 letter to Priestley, Franklin reflected: The rapid Progress true Science now makes, occasions...to imagine the Height to which may be carried in a 1000 Years the Power of Man over Matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large Masses of their Gravity... | |
 | Stanley Hauerwas - 2003 - 324 стор.
...articulated the new scientific approach: "The rapid progress true science now makes," he wrote in 178o, "occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born...impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried ... the power of man over matter. ... All disease may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting... | |
 | Daniel Callahan, Milbank Memorial Fund - 2003 - 342 стор.
..."It is impossible to imagine," Franklin wrote to a renowned scientist of the day, Joseph Priestly, "the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter. . . . All diseases may be prevented or cured, not excepting even that of old age, and our lives lengthened... | |
 | Michael Brian Schiffer, Kacy L. Hollenback, Carrie L. Bell - 2003 - 398 стор.
...sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the Height to which may be carried in a 1000 Years the Power of Man over Matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large Masses of their Gravity & give them absolute Levity, for the sake of easy Transport. Agriculture may diminish... | |
 | Celia Deane-Drummond, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Robin Grove-White - 2003 - 392 стор.
...make occasions my regrets sometimes that I was born too soon. It is impossible to imagine the heights to which may be carried in a thousand years the power of man over matter ... All diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even that of old age, and our... | |
 | Edward Cornish - 2004 - 348 стор.
...growing enthusiasm for technological progress in a 1780 letter to fellow scientist Joseph Priestley: The rapid progress true science now makes occasions...matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity, and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish... | |
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