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Answers questions on Einstein's popular account of relativity: simultaneity, the Lorentz transformation, space-time and gravitation, quoting Robert W. Lawson's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.
“…he process of evolution of an empirical science to be a continuous process of induction. Theories are evolved and are expressed in short compass as statements o…”
Answers questions on Lucretius's On the Nature of Things: atoms and void, the soul, why not to fear death and the origins of the world, quoting William Ellery Leonard's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“# OF THE NATURE OF THINGS”
Answers questions on Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species: natural selection, variation and the struggle for existence, quoting the 1859 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“The other and more general departments of natural history will rise greatly in interest. The terms used by naturalists of affinity, relationship, community of t…”
Answers questions on Camille Flammarion's Astronomy for Amateurs: the sky, the Moon, the Sun, the planets, comets and the stars, quoting Frances A. Welby's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“…ife, and the positive facts acquired by Science, we should enlarge the circle of our conceptions and our judgments, and not limit extra-terrestrial existence to…”
Answers questions on Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle: the Galapagos, Tierra del Fuego, South America and coral reefs, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“In the cases where we can trace the extinction of a species through man, either wholly or in one limited district, we know that it becomes rarer and rarer, and …”
Answers questions on Clausewitz's On War: what war is, friction, the relation of war to policy, attack and defence, quoting J. J. Graham's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“#### 46. SCIENCE MUST BECOME ART.”
Answers questions on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: virtue, happiness, friendship and the golden mean, quoting D. P. Chase's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“### Chapter VII. Science is a term we use principally in two meanings: in the first place, in the Arts we ascribe it to those who carry their arts to the highes…”
Answers questions on William James's Pragmatism: the pragmatic method, the pragmatic theory of truth and the squirrel dispute, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the lecture.
“But the scientific tendency in critical thought, tho inspired at first by purely intellectual motives, has opened an entirely unexpected range of practical util…”
Answers questions on reproducible, ethical and collaborative data science from The Turing Way handbook, citing the exact chapter in the GitHub repo the-turing-way/the-turing-way (CC BY 4.0). Not an official Turing Way product.
“#### **Data Science** * _Data science: A guide for society_. Ask for Evidence. (2019). Retrieved October 26, 2021, from https://askforevidence.org/articles/data…”
Answers questions on Descartes's Discourse on the Method: methodical doubt, his four rules and 'I think, therefore I am', quoting John Veitch's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the part.
“…NG THE REASON, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES”
