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The Return of Ancient Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

T. J. Haarhoff
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It has been said: ‘The Classics can be scrapped because of the advance of modern science.’ But, apart from the timeless values in the aesthetic and the moral spheres, we now have the amazing fact that in the realm of science itself, Nobel Prizewinners like Heisenberg and Schrödinger have been pleading for a return to the ancient Greeks; and that, too, in the most modern of scientific fields—atomic physics.

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Greece & Rome , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , October 1962, pp. 128 - 133
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1962

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