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...Secondly, I am working to develop a new source of power. When I say a new source, I mean that I have turned for power to a source which no previous scientist has turned, to the best of my knowledge. The conception, the idea when it first burst upon me was a tremendous shock...
...understand that ever since the Scopes trial you've wanted to put forward a motion picture to educate the people to your contentions about Evolution." An arrange ment was made whereby Mr. Laemmle's Universal Pictures would supplement Mr. Cummins' bits with connectives and shots of Mr. Darrow. No scientist, and very, very serious about the proposed picture, Lawyer Darrow called in Smith College's goateed Professor Howard Madison Parshley and they spent three hardworking months preparing explanatory dialog. Last week the finished film was ready for review by Dr. James Wingate's New York State Board of Censors before...
...Scientist Albert Einstein wrote a letter from Potsdam, Germany, to Governor James Rolph of California, appealing for an "absolute pardon" for Thomas J. Mooney and Warren H. Billings, questionably convicted of bombing the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day parade. Pleaded Scientist Einstein: "I, myself, am of the decided opinion which I must, express, for I cannot lie, that a miscarriage of justice undoubtedly appears in the present case...
...Deutsche Bank of Berlin (1893-1914) whose subscription to one-fourth of a $100,000,000 gold loan to the U. S. Treasury helped avert panic in 1896. A backer of Edison Electric Light Co., he organized the International Niagara Commission which was headed by Lord Kelvin, famed British scientist. As president (1890-99) of Cataract Construction Co. he led the development of power at Niagara Falls; for this he was given the John Fritz Gold Medal in 1926. Philanthropist, art patron, he enjoyed listing his membership in scores of educational, artistic and charitable organizations...
...answer to the question is better left to the scientist than to the philosopher. And yet within the last few years, leading scientists have been professing tremendous humility; in honest doubt of meaning of their discoveries, they are turning to the philosopher and the poet in search of a meaning. Having pierced dark matter and widened into the realms of insubstantial light, there is an urgency for meaning. To that point all searchers return. And one is inclined to think that it will be the philosopher or the poet who does provide a meaning. For man has never been satisfied...