“To work for science and to write for people”. To the 170th birth an-niversary of K.A. Timiryazev

 

Attempt is made by the author to reshape the image of famous scientist, citizen and thinker K.A. Timiryazev, and thus to demonstrate that the path of science is the path towards the truth.

Key words: science, natural science, democracy, enlightenment, world view, humanism, truth, evolution, dialectics

 

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