Word: academicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this we experienced as we read Academician [Andrei] Sakharov's article* and heard the international reactions to it. Our hearts beat faster as we realized that someone had broken out from the deep, untroubled, cozy drowse in which Soviet scientists pursue their scientific work. It was a liberating joy to realize that Western atomic scientists are not the only ones who feel pangs of conscience-that a conscience is awakening amongst our own scientists...
...overemphasizing techniques and exact answers, the academician reveals an unwillingness to go out on a limb. Quantitative problems are usually small problems because data do not exist for the larger ones, unless estimated with gross approximation. For instance, you can solve the logistical problems of a war with systems analysis, but you cannot decide thereby if the war ought to be fought (Vietnam illustrates both points). Even apart from quantification, Harvard is still marked by an alarming degree of personal aloofness from society's problems, which is another form of refusing to go out on a limb. Of course this...
...must admit that this line of reasoning made a strange impression on me-one not at all favorable to Academician Kapitsa...
...done penance. Kapitsa, too, is only human, and he made a mistake by refusing to work on military problems. My mistake was in refusing to let him go abroad. So, as people used to say when I was a child, we can call it quits. I now ask Academician Kapitsa, whom I've always respected as a great scientist, to forgive...
...support and applaud the nomination of Academician Andrei Sakharov for the Nobel Prize for Peace, as proposed by my friend Alexander Solzhenitsyn [Sept...