Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...realized that the combination of ideas which made me what I was was wrong; that every one was wrong and that there were certain standards of moral behavior that are in you and which you cannot disregard...
Fuchs is a type of traitor which the U.S. has recently and reluctantly come to recognize. It is the type of the intelligent, talented, apparently sincere man who suffers from Communism's moral cancer, the man who can calmly do wrong and pretend to himself that he is doing right-because in his mind he has obliterated right & wrong. As such he is far more dangerous than the mere mercenary spy. These excerpts from Fuchs's confession are a case history of the man who was finally caught by the police, and by the raddled vestiges...
Popper defined science as "a friendly rivalry where each scientist tries to prove the other wrong . . . it consists in having ideas--queer, bold, inventive--rather than in careful observation...
...good failure in science is always respectable," commented Popper. "The scientist who has taken the bold leap and has been proven wrong is no failure in the ordinary sense of the word...
...Faculty's action against the "informer ously with a major breach in the nation's security in the Fuchs affair, should point up the inadequacy of the present standardized U.S. government method of checking up on loyalty. There are serious things wrong with a system that cannot catch the big men like Fuchs but instead impairs only the freedom of many little men whose lack of important scientific knowledge, as well as their limited access to vital information, may rule them out as effective threats to security...