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...colleges in a time of financial crisis to contribute to unemployment relief it is not for the colleges to object and point out that such a duty is not within their province. They can, however, refuse to comply with the suggested methods for raising money if these methods contradict their educational policy. Harvard has done this thing in refusing to allow its football team to play in any post-season charity game...
...obey the laws of mathematics. Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do. ... Jeans's God. like Plato's, is one who has a passion for doing sums, but being a pure mathematician, is quite indifferent as to what the sums are about. . . . Eddington and Jeans contradict each other, and . . . both contradict the biological theologians, but all agree that in the last resort science should abdicate before what is called the religious consciousness. This attitude is regarded by themselves and by their admirers as more optimistic than that of the uncompromising rationalist. It is, in fact, quite...
...Before referring to some of the more urgent questions of the day I should like to contradict the many rumors spread abroad about Fascism and the danger it is supposed to represent for the peace of the world. Such accusations are groundless. Neither I nor my government nor the Italian people desire to bring about...
...crazy. I'm sick of this science business. I had it out with Kegel before the conference, and told him nobody is going to take away my baby. My wife knows it's our baby and I guess a mother's instinct is as good as the experts, who contradict themselves. . , . That Kegel, making us pose for the movies and talkies and news reels! I'm sick...
...development of a natural law two steps are necessary: 1) Statement of the law; 2) Application of the law to specific problems. Thus, almost anyone can make a statement so long as it does not contradict accepted laws. The difficulty is encountered in proving...