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... understanding of living things during the first half of this century is evidence of how effectively the ' thing ... understand- ing how the body works as a physiological machine , with all the reper- cussions of that knowledge on ...
... understanding of living things during the first half of this century is evidence of how effectively the ' thing ... understand- ing how the body works as a physiological machine , with all the reper- cussions of that knowledge on ...
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... understand a thing or a system , we have to find out about its structure . This will be the subject of this chapter ; in later ones we shall go on to discuss the changes and operations of structures . Perhaps the simplest kind of ...
... understand a thing or a system , we have to find out about its structure . This will be the subject of this chapter ; in later ones we shall go on to discuss the changes and operations of structures . Perhaps the simplest kind of ...
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... understand best , and in particular most of the systems about which our understanding has been increasing most rapidly , are those in which imaginative insight into the structure of the general characters of the processes involved has ...
... understand best , and in particular most of the systems about which our understanding has been increasing most rapidly , are those in which imaginative insight into the structure of the general characters of the processes involved has ...
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