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THE BEGINNING OF SCIENCE 600BCE--1400CE |
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Eclipses of the Sun can be predicted |
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20 | (1) |
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Now hear the fourfold roots of everything |
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21 | (1) |
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Measuring the circumference of Earth |
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22 | (1) |
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The human is related to the lower beings |
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23 | (1) |
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A floating object displaces its own volume in liquid |
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24 | (2) |
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The Sun is like fire, the Moon is like water |
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26 | (2) |
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Light travels in straight lines into our eyes |
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28 | (6) |
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SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION 1400--1700 |
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At the center of everything is the Sun |
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34 | (6) |
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The orbit of every planet is an ellipse |
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40 | (2) |
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A falling body accelerates uniformly |
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42 | (2) |
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The globe of the Earth is a magnet |
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44 | (1) |
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Not by arguing, but by trying |
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45 | (1) |
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Touching the spring of the air |
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46 | (4) |
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Is light a particle or a wave? |
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50 | (2) |
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The first observation of a transit of Venus |
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52 | (1) |
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Organisms develop in a series of steps |
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53 | (1) |
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All living things are composed of cells |
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54 | (1) |
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Layers of rock form on top of one another |
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55 | (1) |
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Microscopic observations of animalcules |
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56 | (2) |
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Measuring the speed of light |
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58 | (2) |
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One species never springs from the seed of another |
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60 | (2) |
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Gravity affects everything in the universe |
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62 | (12) |
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EXPANDING HORIZONS 1700--1800 |
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Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds |
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74 | (2) |
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The heat that disappears in the conversion of water into vapor is not lost |
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76 | (2) |
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78 | (2) |
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Winds, as they come nearer the equator, become more easterly |
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80 | (1) |
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A strong current comes out of the Gulf of Florida |
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81 | (1) |
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82 | (2) |
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In nature, nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes |
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84 | (1) |
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The mass of a plant comes from the air |
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85 | (1) |
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86 | (2) |
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The diminution of the velocity of light |
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88 | (2) |
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Setting the electric fluid in motion |
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90 | (6) |
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No vestige of a beginning and no prospect of an end |
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96 | (6) |
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The attraction of mountains |
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102 | (2) |
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The mystery of nature in the structure and fertilization of flowers |
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104 | (1) |
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Elements always combine the same way |
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105 | (5) |
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A CENTURY OF PROGRESS 1800--1900 |
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The experiments may be repeated with great ease when the Sun shines |
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110 | (2) |
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Ascertaining the relative weights of ultimate particles |
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112 | (2) |
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The chemical effects produced by electricity |
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114 | (1) |
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Mapping the rocks of a nation |
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115 | (1) |
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She knows to what tribe the bones belong |
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116 | (2) |
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The inheritance of acquired characteristics |
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118 | (1) |
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Every chemical compound has two parts |
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119 | (1) |
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The electric conflict is not restricted to the conducting wire |
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120 | (1) |
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One day, sir, you may tax it |
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121 | (1) |
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Heat penetrates every substance in the universe |
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122 | (2) |
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The artificial production of organic substances from inorganic substances |
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124 | (2) |
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Winds never blow in a straight line |
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126 | (1) |
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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis |
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On the colored light of the binary stars |
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127 | (1) |
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The glacier was God's great plough |
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128 | (2) |
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Nature can be represented as one great whole |
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130 | (6) |
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Light travels more slowly in water than in air |
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136 | (2) |
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Living force may be converted into heat |
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138 | (1) |
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Statistical analysis of molecular movement |
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139 | (1) |
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Plastic is not what I meant to invent |
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140 | (2) |
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I have called this principle natural selection |
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142 | (8) |
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150 | (6) |
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Omne vivum ex vivo---all life from life |
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156 | (4) |
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One of the snakes grabbed its own tail |
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160 | (6) |
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The definitely expressed average proportion of three to one |
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166 | (6) |
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An evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs |
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172 | (2) |
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An apparent periodicity of properties |
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174 | (6) |
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Light and magnetism are affectations of the same substance |
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180 | (6) |
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Rays were coming from the tube |
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186 | (2) |
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188 | (2) |
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Radiation is an atomic property of the elements |
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190 | (6) |
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A contagious living fluid |
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196 | (6) |
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A PARADIGM SHIFT 1900-1945 |
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Quanta are discrete packets of energy |
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202 | (4) |
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Now I know what the atom looks like |
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206 | (8) |
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Gravity is a distortion in the space-time continuum |
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214 | (8) |
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Earth's drifting continents are giant pieces in an ever-changing jigsaw |
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222 | (2) |
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Chromosomes play a role in heredity |
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224 | (2) |
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Particles have wavelike properties |
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226 | (8) |
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Uncertainty is inevitable |
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234 | (2) |
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The universe is big... and getting bigger |
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236 | (6) |
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The radius of space began at zero |
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242 | (4) |
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Every particle of matter has an antimatter counterpart |
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246 | (2) |
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There is an upper limit beyond which a collapsing stellar core becomes unstable |
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248 | (1) |
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
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Life itself is a process of obtaining knowledge |
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249 | (1) |
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95 percent of the universe is missing |
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250 | (2) |
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A universal computing machine |
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252 | (2) |
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The nature of the chemical bond |
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254 | (6) |
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An awesome power is locked inside the nucleus of an atom |
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260 | (10) |
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FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS 1945--PRESENT |
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270 | (1) |
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271 | (1) |
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The strange theory of light and matter |
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272 | (2) |
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274 | (2) |
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We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) |
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276 | (8) |
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Everything that can happen happens |
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284 | (2) |
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A perfect game of tic-tac-toe |
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286 | (6) |
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The unity of fundamental forces |
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292 | (2) |
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We are the cause of global warming |
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294 | (2) |
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296 | (2) |
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A vacuum is not exactly nothing |
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298 | (2) |
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300 | (2) |
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302 | (6) |
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308 | (6) |
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314 | (1) |
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Earth and all its life forms make up a single living organism called Gaia |
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315 | (1) |
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A cloud is made of billows upon billows |
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316 | (1) |
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A quantum model of computing |
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317 | (1) |
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Genes can move from species to species |
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318 | (2) |
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The soccer ball can withstand a lot of pressure |
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320 | (2) |
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Insert genes into humans to cure disease |
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322 | (2) |
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Designing new life forms on a computer screen |
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324 | (2) |
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326 | (1) |
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Worlds beyond the solar system |
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327 | (1) |
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| Directory |
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328 | (12) |
| Glossary |
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340 | (4) |
| Index |
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344 | (8) |
| Acknowledgments |
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