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...Sage or Joy-Killer...
Last week, at the lively sessions of the American Psychiatric Association in Cincinnati, grey-bearded, 73-year-old Dr. Adolf Meyer, long head of Phipps Psychiatric clinic at Johns Hopkins, was chief sage and arbiter...
Four years ago Professor Albert Einstein, the good grey sage of Princeton, N. J., published an essay in which he compared science to a pyramid (TIME, March 16, 1936). At the pyramid's base are a number of unconnected sense impressions, such as that boiling water is turbulent while cold water is quiet. As progress is made up the pyramid, sense impressions are connected by theorems and syntheses which cover more & more phenomena, so that the basic statements need be fewer (the cross section of the pyramid diminishes). Such progress was made, for example, when heat was found...
Last week, in an address delivered to the American Scientific Congress in Washington, the sage of Princeton confessed himself baffled. "For the time being," he said, " we have to admit that we do not possess any general theoretical basis for physics which can be regarded as its logical foundation. The field theory, so far, has failed in the molecular sphere...
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