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What Dr. Oppenheimer has great hopes for is "another side of the coin." Perhaps "there are elements in the way of life of the scientist which . . . have hope in them for bringing dignity and courage and serenity to other...
Accept the Virtues. In the first place, he argues, science enjoys "a total lack of authoritarianism . . . accomplished by one of the most exacting of intellectual disciplines. [The scientist] learns the possibility of error very early. He learns that there are ways to correct his mistakes; he learns the futility of trying to conceal them...
...nineteenth century drew to its end, the spirit of scientific research fostered by the Lawrence Scientific School had so imbued itself in Harvard life that it was no longer necessary to attend the Scientific School in order to become a scientist, for the University offered other training for astronomers, chemists biologists, and the like...
...demonstration, characterized as "spontaneous" by PCA headquarters in Boston, led to a resolution at the organization's Sunday convention backing the scientist for governor. The action did not have the effect of a nomination, a PCA spokesman explained, since the meeting was not a third party convention...
...team since they were boys. Sons of a United Brethren bishop (there were two other brothers and a sister), they liked to make things for themselves. They quit high school and opened a bicycle shop. In 1896, they read about the fatal crash of Otto Lilienthal, a German scientist who had been experimenting with gliders. They sent to the Smithsonian 'Institution for all the information there was on flying (there wasn't much), and asked the Weather Bureau to recommend a place where the wind blew steady and strong over unobstructed ground. The bureau suggested Kitty Hawk...