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...believe that Professor Bridgman errs as a scientist, for science and truth can never be the property of any one nation or of any one political theory. . . . The only way to expose the falseness of the doctrines of Fascism and Naziism is to provide for the greatest possible exchange of information so that the inconsistency and failures of these theories may be illuminated by the dazzling light of truth: Even while he is decrying totalitarianism Professor Bridgman succumbs to it by his methods, since he would employ the same type of tactics as they...
...hundred years ago last week a persevering Yankee named Charles Goodyear brewed some crude rubber, sulfur and white lead on his kitchen stove, discovered vulcanization. That invention changed rubber from a scientist's plaything to one of mankind's most useful commodities. Today there are some 35,000 uses for rubber, 4,000,000 people are employed in the industry and its world-wide investment comes to $2,698,000,000. Greatest concentration of this great sum is found in Ohio's 122 rubber factories and last week in Akron, "rubber capital of the world," the industry...
...every 100 U. S. citizens who have heard of Thomas Alva Edison, it would be hard to find one who has heard of Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903). Some years ago, however, a gathering of British scientists spouting learned chitchat in a cafe voted Gibbs no less than the greatest U. S. scientist ever...
Though no scientist, Everson recognized genius when he heard his gangling new employe's television theory. He went to see two officers of San Francisco's Crocker First National Bank, Jesse B. McCargar and the late James J. Fagan. Crusty Banker Fagan remarked: "Well, that is a damn fool idea but someone ought to put money into it and someone that can afford to lose it." He and McCargar put up an initial $25,000. The year...
When Massachusetts educators and scientists meet Sunday night in Sanders Theatre to emphasize "the American legacy of intellectual freedom," it will not only be part of a nation-wide demonstration but the direct result of an article written several months ago by a German scientist which contrasted a "pragmatic Aryan physics" with a "Jewish physics, which is theoretical and dogmatic...