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...Chicago, Atomic Scientist Dr. Harold Urey was miffed because a reporter had quoted him as remarking of Einstein's new Generalized Theory of Gravitation: "If I read it I probably couldn't understand it." Said Dr. Urey: "I could wring that reporter's neck! It was just an idle remark. Who cares that I don't understand the theory of relativity and/or gravity? I'm just a poor chemist, not a physicist. It would mean something if [Dr.] Robert Oppenheimer said...
...prospect of material progress ; its dream was to be multiplied many times over. But in a measure that would have appalled even the pessimists of 1900, old savageries were to be reborn, also multiplied. 1900 expected the next 50 years to belong to the businessman, or perhaps the scientist, or the educator. After them, the New York Times might be right: the world would belong to the poets "reciting their verses of a Summer evening" beside a Dewey arch...
Would the world in the next 30 years go to the Slichterian heaven or the Orwellian hell? That was a political-and therefore a moral-question. In 1900 scientists had not greatly concerned themselves with political or moral issues, but as the half-century ended they knew themselves to be very deeply involved in such questions. A sharp warning on the political future came from a scientist, Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime boss of the Government's scientific mobilization and head of the Carnegie Institution of Washington...
...Department's first venture into the cartoon field is a simply written, effectively illustrated biography of eight Americans: Presidents Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, Poet Walt Whitman, Social Worker Jane Addams, Scientist George Washington Carver, Industrialist Andrew Carnegie, Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. The first shipment (65,000 copies), on the presses this week in Manhattan, will go to Viet-Nam. Later, 65,000 apiece will be sent to Indonesia, Korea and Thailand...
...precisely advised, at all times, of the risk he assumes. All realistic persons know that we live in an age of Loyalty Commissions and Congressional Investigations: letter carriers are fired for subscribing to "New Masses" and Navy Yard workers are dismissed for possessing Howard Fast's "Freedom Road." Any "scientist" who would investigate people's political, social, sexual, or religious attitudes and values owes a duty to the privacy and dignity of the people he questions. That duty is to warn the justifiably apprehensive respondent of the use to be made of the information procured. This duty is notably clear...