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2014
This chapter first distinguishes five challenges for ultimate explanations: epistemological, metaphysical, thermodynamic, causal, and that of infinities. In a Kantian manner, I then turn the question of the origin upside down and ask: What do we cognitively expect to be a satisfying answer to the ultimate origin of the universe?
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This chapter first distinguishes five challenges for ultimate explanations: epistemological, metaphysical, thermodynamic, causal, and that of infinities. In a Kantian manner, I then turn the question of the origin upside down and ask: What do we cognitively expect to be a satisfying answer to the ultimate origin of the universe?
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The origins of research into the origins of life
Endeavour, 2006Most scientists at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century chose to ignore the question of the origin of life on Earth, regarding it as too mysterious and complex to handle. Yet, in the early 1950s an experimental field devoted to the study of the problem made its first steps. The pioneering theories of several scientists in the first
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Colossus: its origins and originators
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 2004The British Colossus computer was one of the most important tools in the wartime effort to break German codes. Based on interviews and on recently declassified documents, this article clarifies the roles played by Thomas Flowers, Alan Turing, William Tutte, and Max Newman in the events leading to the installation of the first Colossus at Bletchley Park,
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Reviews of Modern Physics, 1979
The 1978 Nobel Prize lecture is presented. A survey is given of during the last forty years.(AIP)
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The 1978 Nobel Prize lecture is presented. A survey is given of during the last forty years.(AIP)
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Meteoritics, 1958
Abstract— The origin of tektites has been obscure because of the following dilemma. The application of physical principles to the data available on tektites points strongly to origin from one or more lunar volcanoes; but few glasses of tektite composition have hitherto been reported from the lunar samples.
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Abstract— The origin of tektites has been obscure because of the following dilemma. The application of physical principles to the data available on tektites points strongly to origin from one or more lunar volcanoes; but few glasses of tektite composition have hitherto been reported from the lunar samples.
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The origin of theOrigin revisited
Journal of the History of Biology, 1977Reexamen de L'Origine des Especes. Le commentaire de D. Brewster sur le Cours de Philosophie Positive d'Auguste Comte. L'impact de ce commentaire sur Darwin. Darwin et Adam Smith. Darwin, Quetelet et Malthus. Darwin et sa croyance religieuse.
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