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...advised a certain individual not to give any information to one of our congressional investigating committees. The professor must think that if one dare not shout "fire" in a crowded auditorium, he is being deprived of the privilege of free speech. When you say he is a great scientist, still does not understand his responsibility of freedom, it proves that there are other avenues of life and human conduct not covered by science...
...this afternoon, research scientist Enders-an unknown figure outside his field will most the King of Sweden and become the seventh member of the Harvard faculty to receive the Noble Prize...
...story behind that discovery might well serve as a modern-day case book in the study of the scientific method. To Enders, the moral is clear: success comes through the persistent use of basic research methods; honor comes only to that research scientist who is only to that research scientist who is fortunate enough to make a final discovery on top of a long string of earlier advancement...
...erroneous impression," Zinsser said, " that scientific discovery is often made by inspiration a sort of coup de foudre from on high. This is rarely the case. As a rule the scientist takes off from the manifold observation of his predecessors and shown his intelligence, if any, by his ability to discriminate between the important and the negligible, by selecting here and there the significant stepping stones that will load across the difficulties to new understanding. The one who places the last stone and stops across to the terra firma of accomplished discovery gets all the credit. Only the initiated know...
Final proof of measles virus growth must await Enders" return from Sweden, however. For the 57-year-old research scientist has not yet innoculated monkeys with the test-tube grown measles virus...