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...fantasy, imagination, and emotions are nothing but electric currents and spurts of chemicals in the brain, they say. Holists, on the other hand, re... ...and understanding. The properties of water, for instance, do spring forth from its chemical and physical composition and from the interactions betw... ...". What permits the complex interactions which happen between these two disparate "substances"? The "unextended mind" and the "extended body" surel... ...fantasy, imagination, and emotions are nothing but electric currents and spurts of chemicals in the brain, they say. Holists, on the other hand, re... ...and understanding. The properties of water, for instance, do spring forth from its chemical and physical composition and from the interactions betw... ...es certain symptoms does not necessarily mean they were caused by the processes or substances affected by the drug administered. Causation is only ... ...ers, and other environmental elements. Nor is the distinction between psychotropic substances and talk therapy that clear-cut. Words and the intera... ...re precisely of its chemistry? If so, can they be cured by restoring the balance of substances and secretions in that mysterious organ? And, once e... ...ists. But we live at an age when mental disorders are thought to have physiological-chemical-genetic origins. All psychological theories and talk th...

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... matter. Instead, it postu- lated that matter is operated by cause and effect. Chemical reac- tions do not happen according to the phantoms of alchemy... ...ot happen according to the phantoms of alchemy, but according to quantifiable chemical reactions that can be mechani- cally controlled by mathematics... ...l other sciences. It was believed that although a living organism was made of chemicals, it was nonetheless oper- ated by a living entity that was no... ...ped. When I was a child, we would take pictures on a film and dip the film in chemicals to de- velop the pictures. When the film was immersed in the ... ...be chilled, the cold can be heated; the solid can be turned to liquid through chemical operations, and the liquid made into air, meaning only gas, w... ... science that engages in the quality of the materials of reality in both mere substances—without their form— and in substances and their forms togeth... ...The second part of the science, which engages solely in forms abstracted from substances, without any contact with the substances themselves. …Hence...

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... model for the planetary system, the atomic model or molecular models for substances, various mathematical models, etc. are examples of speculative ... ... although its material component already undergoes the natural process of chemical decomposition. The ghosts′ stay for a longer while within the mat... ...ainment, upon the natural conclusion of the material life, the body being chemically decomposed and the soul being dissociated into the constituent ... ...ined by the appearance and disappearance of sensations. Genetic birth and chemical decomposition of the body are elements defining very clearly the ... ...ng the dissociation of the soul from the body, on the onset of the body′s chemical decomposition and on of the soul′s monadic dissociation. It means...

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... radioactive materials were not known at that time, and she eventually died in 1934 from an illness likely caused by radiation poisoning. Radioactive Substances is the thesis of Marie Curie, presented to the Faculté de Sciences de Paris in 1903, and subsequently published in Chemical News vol 88, 1903. Marie Curie gives a detailed description of her research on radioactive...

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...became due. Madame Claes requested Pierquin to obtain the bill for all the chemicals that had been furnished to her husband. T wo months later, Messie... .... T wo months later, Messieurs Protez and Chiffreville, manu- facturers of chemical products, sent in a schedule of accounts rendered, which amounted ... ...ore especially valuable machinery, by the exorbitant price of certain rare chemicals, and finally by the cost of instruments made to order after the d... ...stand their full bearing. “‘Monsieur,’ he said, ‘the parity of these three substances, in appearance so distinct, led me to think that all the pro- du... .... Now, analysis has reduced all the products of this nature to four simple substances, namely: three gases, nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen, and anothe... ...wth (too hastily accorded to it by Linnaeus), possesses fifty-three simple substances, or elements, whose different combinations make its products. Is... ...place, the experiment itself. “‘Sow cress-seed (to take one among the many substances of organic nature) in flour of brimstone (to take another simple... ... were to Claes. After the diamonds were sold in Paris, and the purchase of chemicals was again begun, the unhappy woman never knew another hour’s peac... ...he had borrowed, released his property from en- cumbrance, and resumed his chemical researches; but the House of Claes was deprived of its noblest orn...

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...u would tell me of the remarkable precisions, the encyclopaedic quality of chemical terminology, and at the word terminology I should insinuate a comm... ...ems that centre about a standard of value. Gold is perhaps of all material substances the best adapted to the monetary purpose, but even at that best ... ...at are useful instead of being orna- mental, you wash—with such abstersive chemicals as soap for example—and above all you consult doctors.” He ap- pr... ...age by age; I can venture to ignore the rare chance of an abnormal- ity in chemical composition and of any startling aberration in my physiological re...

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...til, being besotted with his own imaginations, and con- ceited of his high chemical skill, he began to spend, in cheat- ing himself, the money which h... ...imself, acquainting me that we should never meet again, bequeathing me his chemical apparatus, and the parchment which I have just put into your hands... ...ced Sussex’s broth wrought more surely, I would have thought better of the chemical sci- ence thou dost boast so highly.” “Thou art an hardened villai... ...he interior of his cell displayed the confused assemblage of heterogeneous substances and extraordinary implements belonging to his profession. The ol...

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.... The most significant discoveries in chemistry and physics are presented chronologically to illustrate their contributions to the creation of the chemical sciences during the last 21 centuries....

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... to express the full extent of my emotions and reasons for writing this book on the STORY OF THE ATOM AND THE SCIENCES, with special reference to the CHEMICAL SCIENCES. In one sentence, I can distill the essence of the purpose for this study by simply stating that it has been a labor of love that transcended the written word because sentiments and ideas belong in the rea...

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...the theory of evolution. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. THE SECOND GENERATION IN SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT 53 IN THE PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES 53 GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642) Italian Astronomer and Physicist 53 One of the Founders of Modern Science and the Scientific Method. Proposed the Laws of Falling Bodies. Supporter of ...

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...than a hundred applications from persons claiming to have discovered cheap substances to be employed in the manu- facture of paper. David felt more th... ... “Now,” said he to himself, “I must contrive to do by ma- chinery and some chemical agency the thing that I myself have done unconsciously.” When his ... ...rice of all kinds of manufactured papers, by introducing certain vegetable substances into the pulp, either by intermixture of such substances with th... ...lous sagacity he watched the un- accountable freaks of the semi-artificial substances called into existence by man for ends of his own; substances in ... ...ore remote affinities of things, of “a second nature,” as he called it, in substances. T owards the end of August he succeeded to some extent in sizin...

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...n Chris- tianity and Paganism, as though it resembled that between certain chemical poisons and the V enetian wine-glass, which (according to the beli... ...d to expose all poisons indifferently, considering the vast range of their chemical dif- ferences. But, surely , as against that one poison then famil... ... , as against that one poison then familiarly used for domestic murders, a chemical reagency might have been devised in the quality of the glass. At l... ...r the colorable pretext that it is a question about shadows, and not about substances, and one therefore which it is creditable to a man’s good sense ... ...ere all equally affected by it. If, by some application of any mechanic or chemical discovery to the process of making candles, the labor of that proc... ...w simply at the locus of colli- sion: just as the reader may have seen the chemical theory of Dr. Priestley, and the counter-theory of his anti-phlogi...

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...mebody asking to see the soul? See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands. L... ...man the glory of his daily walk and trade, To sing in songs how exercise and chemical life are never to be baffled, To manual work for each and all, t... ...ereditary countenance bequeath’d both mother’s and father’s, His first parts substances, earth, water, animals, trees, Built of the common stock, havi... ...t whirl me I know not whither, Your schemes, politics, fail, lines give way, substances mock and elude me, Only the theme I sing, the great and strong...

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...agri must be the name of the place where this animal product underwent the chemical process of prepa- ration so clearly described by Pallas, to which ... ...ed a moment, and then remarked: “This unknown material ought to be treated chemically by re-agents. Let us call on Japhet—perhaps the chemist may have... ...ne, and digitaline are not really discov- eries—” “Since you cannot invent substances,” said Raphael, “you are obliged to fall back on inventing names...

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...schrecke, had it in his power to furnish the requisite Documents. As in some chemical mixture, that has stood long evaporating, but would not crystall... ...om us. Then, in that strange Dream, how we clutch at shadows as if they were substances; and sleep deepest while fancying our selves most awake! Whic... ...In our busy Europe, is there not an everlasting demand for Intellect, in the chemical, mechanical, political, religious, educational, commercial depar... ...e they find such, and stuffing them up with pieces of raiment, or other opaque substances, till the fit obscurity is restored. Again, like all followers ...

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...of the vocal apparatus to make sounds; of the mouth to spew out unpleasant substances; to gag and to curl the lip, and so on in almost indefinite numb... ...ciples of mechanics. To cook is to utilize heat and moisture to change the chemical relations of food mate- rials; it has a bearing upon the assimilat... ...text, but translated into terms of sci- entific inquiry. Atoms, molecules, chemical formulae, the mathematical propositions in the study of physics—al...