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...United States, Canada, the British Isles, New Zealand, Australia, Africa, China, and Japan. He began as a practitioner in Christian Science in 1891, and became a teacher in 1908. He is at present a member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ Scientist, in Boston...
...coming to him. He was an enormously ignorant, ineffectual, and complacent man. His tribe of hemen, go-getters and parasites upon public cupidity and gullibility deserved to be pilloried by Sinclair Lewis. But his more talented cousins-the big business man, the financier, the military leader, the engineer, the scientist, the inventor -have a more genuine grievance against the world. They have erected the edifice of modern civilization, they are responsible for Progress with a capital P, but fame and immortality go to the artists. Because they can paint, write, compose, the artists have been able to project themselves before...
...Einstein cannot be regarded as a scientist of real note," concludes Captain See. " He is not an honest investigator...
Indignant at Einstein's reticence about his most recent discovery, Robert L. Duffus, writing in The New York Globe, claims that the lack lies in the scientist rather than in the reporters and the public. The truths with which such men deal, he says, cannot be said to be discovered until they have been made as intelligible as murders or prizefights to the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker...
...only American among the names of the most eminent chemists of all time inscribed along the front of the new Sterling Laboratory at Yale, is Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903), distinguished for his work on vector analysis, thermodynamics and the phase rule, and generally accounted the greatest exact scientist America has yet produced...