Word: physicist
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...thought of the ruling power of the universe. It is sure that the universe is guided by thought, that is by reasonable laws, for if the world were only a mass of atoms without any controlling power there would be nothing stable or certain about it. So the physicist tries to understand God's thoughts as shown in the laws of matter, and the theologist tries to understand them in his spiritual laws. Religion is not by any means the same thing as theology. The one is the science of the study of God's nature, while the other...
...more thing may explain the prejudice of some scientists against religion, that is, that they do not usually know enough about it to speak reasonably on the matter. Specialists are inevitably narrow and a physicist is no more capable of discussing metaphysics than a senior wrangler is of curing a sick...
...library has recently received a large framed photograph of Michael Eugene Chevreul, the famous French physicist and chemist, who received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard at the 250th anniversary of the college. He died April 9, 1889, at the age of 102, being the oldest man who ever received an honorary degree from Harvard...