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...vivid flash comes the realization that men are atoms living on the hardened crust of a boiling pot--on a tiny ball itself whirling among countless similar balls, according to one vast plan. Today the earth merely trembles, the seismograph vibrates, and the scientist asks: "Somewhere...
There is much to stir the imagination in the picture of an angry, writhing, poisonous snake pinned firmly to the operating table in the reptile house at the Zoo, and encouraged by a scientist to strike at a bit of parchment covering a glass retainer. Instead of destroying, the snake is thus enlisted in the work of saving human life...
...excess as well in the use of a language as in any other species of human thought and action; super-conceits are only ridiculous. But it does seem as though even leaving English. A and the "red-cap" out of the question the average person, be he litterateur, scientist of philosopher, should be willing both to listen and speak with some degree of care. More than that, he must do so if he is to succeed in his chosen field. Examples to strengthen this argument are unnecessary, surely. Not that "the man on the street" ought to be able...
...Industry needs the college man who can treat it with the impartial judgement of the scientist, who weighs all the facts which he can obtain, and then draws his conclusions. Prejudice is extremely hard to overcome, but the man who wants to go into industry must be big enough to cast prejudice aside, and weigh all the facts impartially. The man who can be truly open-minded can really accomplish something inn industry, but the one who cannot do this can contribute nothing to industrial progress...
...There are three universities, Oxford, Cambridge and Trinity, but the greatest of these is Trinity." So say certain loyal Trinity men, and when their enthusiasm carries them even farther, they quote, albeit in doggerel Latin, a great scientist...