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Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, 10 May 1813 The Fraser Tytler family vault, Greyfriars Kirkyard. Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee FRSE (15 October 1747 – 5 January 1813) was a Scottish advocate, judge, writer, and historian who was a Professor of Universal History and of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the University of Edinburgh.
Notable works. Organizations and groups. People. Related social movements. See also. v. t. e. In economics and industrial design, planned obsolescence (also called built-in obsolescence or premature obsolescence) is the concept of policies planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life or a purposely frail design, so ...
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche[ii] (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. [14] He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person to hold the Chair of Classical ...
If the deep marine hydrothermal setting was the site for the origin of life, then abiogenesis could have happened as early as 4.0-4.2 Gya. If life evolved in the ocean at depths of more than ten meters, it would have been shielded both from impacts and the then high levels of ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
The history of life on Earth traces the processes by which living and extinct organisms evolved, from the earliest emergence of life to the present day. Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago (abbreviated as Ga, for gigaannum) and evidence suggests that life emerged prior to 3.7 Ga. [1] [2] [3] The similarities among all known present-day species indicate that they have diverged through the ...
Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FRS FBA [ 4 ] (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British [ 5 ] philosopher, academic and social commentator. [ 6 ][ 7 ][ 8 ] One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, [ 9 ][ 10 ][ 11 ] Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific ...
In the Judaic worldview, the meaning of life is to elevate the physical world ('Olam HaZeh') and prepare it for the world to come (' Olam HaBa '), the messianic era. This is called Tikkun Olam ("Fixing the World"). Olam HaBa can also mean the spiritual afterlife, and there is debate concerning the eschatological order.
Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [ O.S. January 6, 1705] [ Note 1 ] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. [ 1 ] Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the ...