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...scientist to protest that if he cut the Bump of Amativeness right out of a pigeon's brain, it went on billing and cooing and laying eggs just the same. Phrenology offered an easy clue to the enigma of human life. In the U.S., furthermore, phrenology took on a democratic tinge. Everyone had a head, and everyone with the aid of a little chart could understand what was going on in it. It was optimistic-the "good" organs, by exercise, would increase in size. Two men with heads as massive as Beethoven's took the whole thing over...
...careless act in handling secret material. At the same time there are urgent jobs to be done. If we trust no one with secrets, then there will be no secrets-for secrets are invented in the brains of fallible human beings. If we disqualify every competent but slightly "imperfect" scientist from working for the government, then we shall surely fail to survive as a nation in the modern world...
...colleagues in the university," the physicist said, "the scientist tends to seem more a man from another planet, a creature uttering profound but incomprehensible truths, or a technician scattering antibiotics with one hand and atomic bombs with the other...
...Wisdom can achieve a hybrid vigor by crossing the scientist and the humanist through a more extensive and intensive interaction within the faculty," he suggested. "Why should not the professor of physics to expected to refresh himself every seven years with a sabbatical by taking a course in aesthetics or comparative literature or in the Greek drama?" he asked...
Rabi was introduced by President Pusey, who praised him as both a scientist and a humanitarian. This was the first time a Morris Loeb Lecture has concerned a non-technical topic...