Word: biologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many people suspect that scientists, riding high in the modern world, are uninterested in man's spiritual qualities, which cannot be subjected to test tube and microscopic analysis. One scientist who is deeply interested in analysis of the spirit is Biologist Edmund W. Sinnott, dean of Yale's Graduate School. In his new book, The Biology of the Spirit (Viking; $3.50), Professor Sinnott tries to find some common foundation for the spiritual feelings of man and the facts about material life that have been discovered by biologists...
...solving problems, and the steps they took in their solutions were far more important than their answers. Theoretically, a Caltech student may ar rive at all the wrong answers on exams, and still get passing marks if his professor believes that his thinking is sound. The whole idea, says Biologist George Beadle, is to avoid "the descriptive tech nique, which is just learning things by rote. In the analytical approach, you learn the why of things, the premise being that if you understand the principles, you can apply them to any problem...
...noted biologist, the first speaker of the new PBH lecture series, explained that the parent who takes his 16-year-old son aside to reveal the facts of life is already 13 years late...
Only a marine biologist would have found the shell exciting. Hubbs knew that cryptochitons do not live, at present, south of Santa Barbara, 300 miles to the north. He deduced that the water off Lower California (and presumably the climate) must have been considerably colder when the prehistoric Indians ate that cryptochiton...
...Britain's Discovery, Biologist N. B. Marshall tells how fish make their eyes useful in the dark ocean depths. Some have enormous, supersensitive eyes to catch the faintest glimmers from the luminous organs of their prey or enemies. Others have tubular eyes like telescopes or light-projecting organs like searchlights with lenses...