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“The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to an inferior order of things. Counter-claims are made that they are the only living and dynamic studies... Both contentions are wrong. Language, Literature and Philosophy express, reflect and contemplate the world. But it is a world in which men will never be content to stay at rest, and so these disciplines cannot be cut off from the great searching into the nature of things without being deprived of life-blood.”

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Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood was an outstanding chemist known for his contributions to dynamical theory, catalysis, and atmospheric chemistry. He was born on June 19, 1897, and passed away on October 9, 1967. more

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