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...literature student reads of reactions of individuals to an idea, the philosophy student of ethics studies the idea itself and speculates on its ramifications. In a similar manner the student taking a phil course in epistemology ponders on the assumptions that underlie the work of the physical scientist...
...businessman," asked Boyer, "or a politician for that matter-tell a good scientist? He certainly is incapable of forming any sensible judgment on scientific grounds. He must, I think, turn to the human side. Every scientific discovery is in a sense the autobiography of the man who made...
After asking advice from eminent friends, Boyer decided that a creative scientist must be "an all-round man, not a narrow specialist . . . This type of man is the one best able to leap barriers between fields, to borrow techniques, to synthesize new concepts." Besides many-sidedness, the productive researcher should have "the ability to see the relationship between apparently unrelated facts, the ability to appreciate the significance of the unobvious." He should have "intense curiosity combined with intense skepticism." His motivating force should be "the esthetic satisfaction he obtains in bringing order out of chaos...
...Raoul Dautry, then French armaments minister, had tried to justify this situation with Gallic sophistication: "Our atomic scientists are men of all political views. You cannot control what goes on in their minds. Who knows what a man really means when he tells a girl he loves her?" Last week, Joliot-Curie left no doubt in anybody's mind about what he meant. At a Communist Party meeting he declared that he would not collaborate with the U.S. on atomic-energy matters. Said he -"We Communists know that the Soviet Union will not be the first...
Ramsey, a 34-year-old nuclear physicist, came to the University in 1947 after active government work on atomic energy projects during the war. He has held positions as Expert Consultant to the Secretary of War, Associate Development Head of the Los Alamos Project, and Chief Scientist at the Atomic Energy Advance Base at Tinian in the Marianas...