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¶ There are two schools of mentality in physics, the pragmatists who move toward reality by wholesome experiment, and the dogmatists who use unwholesome imagination. "For the pragmatic spirit physical research is a process of evolution from what has been established to new experimental knowledge; for him there is no...
In 1929 Scientist Karl Ehrhardt of Germany published photographs of a female monkey holding a young guinea pig in a maternal manner. This foster mother had been injected with a crude extract from pituitary glands. In 1932 Dr. Oscar Riddle and his associates at the Carnegie Institution's station...
Lying low while Huxley fought evolution's battles, ridden by an anxiety neurosis until he became famous, he spent his old age reading romantic novels, died quietly at 73, concerned for the future of his investments, never realized how completely he had revolutionized the whole field of human thought...
Last year some 30 books struggled for the first six places on best-seller lists. Some, like Northwest Passage, stayed on top all year. But of more than 4,000 titles published in the last six months, only five managed to crowd out these old favorites. Last month, as Dale...
Professor Franz Weidenreich, noted physical anthropologist at Heidelberg and Frankfort Universities, will lecture on "Does Peking Man prove human evolution?," at the Institute of Geographical Exploration today at 5:30 o'clock.