Useless scientific or chemical knowledge
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[The usefulness of useless knowledge].
r IT not a curious fact that in a world steeped in irrational hatreds which threaten civilization itself, men and women-old and young-detach themselves wholly or partly from the angry current of daily life to devote themselves to the cultivation of beauty, to the extension of knowledge, to the cure of disease, to the amelioration of suffering, just as though fanatics were not simultaneously eng...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Chemical Education
سال: 1933
ISSN: 0021-9584,1938-1328
DOI: 10.1021/ed010p56