Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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During his first two lectures I thought he was showing, in an admirably graphic way, that scientists making decisions are no different from other people making decisions. They act as men rather than as professionals, and they choose on the basis of sudden hatreds and loves, factional loyalties, and personal...
In that lecture, he said that more scientists in government would make it easier for us to develop from an "existentialist" society into a "future-directed" one. Scientists, who have a sense of the future by virtue of the changing, historical character of their disciplines, can provide an antidote to...
This is the kind of argument you can take or leave. There is no evidence that scientists are more prone to be future minded about non-science affairs than other men, nor that the scientist in the street would be better at secret decisions than, say, the historian in the...
Rage at existentialist sloth and his plea for a new vision to strive after place Snow near the camps of those calling for national purpose and those who are sad to se the end of ideology. His weak argument for more scientists in top government positions derives from something more...
We who have, for the most part, attained wealth have become aware of deeper spiritual maladjustments, and some of us have concluded that the trouble with material goals is that you can reach them. But as the world's arrivistes, the western nations should not forget what misery means. Anomie...