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Percy W. Bridgman, Higgins University Professor, stressed the discovery that the human animal is capable of engaging in science and his subsequent emotional involvement with the results of science, a community which thus "appears late in social evolution."
The sixth child and only son of a Prussian civil servant, Kurt Schumacher was born in the town of Kulm on the Vistula. It is now a part of Poland-to Schumacher a constant reminder of Germany's dismemberment in two wars. He went into the Kaiser's...
"The cult of 'objective study' likewise cannot stand scrutiny . . . The mockery is so complete that the whole foundation of our education must now be questioned. For education has assumed that human nature is a receptacle for 'facts,' and that this diet of facts will of itself...
Dr. Bush, who was boss of all U.S. Government scientists during World Wrar II, traces the evolution of scientific combat through two world wars. Radar, sonar, proximity fuses, guided missiles and atomic bombs, he points out, have almost overnight made modern warfare incalculably more swift and destructive than ever before...
Gleefully using such devices wherever possible, and speeding along in a clear, scholarly style, Gamow develops the universe from a primordial, exploding "something" to the currently popular, expanding, gravitationally unstable dust cloud. Then follows the accepted course through local condensations to the bare, rocky planets circling--about their central suns...