Barzun, Jacques

Barzun, Jacques. Science The Glorious Entertainment. Harper Row, New York. 1964. 

Barzun, Jacque, Graff, H. F., The Modem Researcher, Harcourt, New York, 1957. 

It appears that everything is getting more and more complex, including the study of cancer and its treatment — which often translates into stasis. Thus, Jacques Barzun wrote in the prologue of his latest, about his 30th, From Dawn to Decadence 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present (2001), that, in a stalled society, for any proposal or project, there are contrary arguments that seon equally sensible. And Isaac Newton declared that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. 

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