Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to straddle that issue. "We cannot be a conglomeration of Christians and Nordic pagans," he declared. "We must learn to view Christ in the German fashion," This fashion the Reichsbischof did not define. It vibrated last week between non-Nazi and Nazi overemphasis respectively on the passive concept of Gentle Jesus and the active concept of an Heroic Christ. Reichsbischof Müller vibrated too. First he appointed three good Nazis to his new "Spiritual Cabinet." But their first act was to forbid governing officers of the Church to belong to any "church political parties, leagues, groups or movements...
...economics a position parallel to the one it occupied in the later Middle Ages. It is fighting for the old and dying and is doing its best to strangle the new and rising. At that time it was defending precisely what it is opposing today. It was defending the concept of community regulated according to function, one aimed at spiritual ends with commerce as a mere thing to keep the body alive until death. It was fighting the rising concept of material progress, the search for wealth as an end in itself or as the sole way to happiness...
...distinguished himself by studies on the Zeeman effect (splitting of spectrum lines when light comes from an electromagnetic field). Independently of the de Broglie wave mechanics, he devised an abstruse mathematical description of electronic behavior which he called "matrix mechanics." He saw the necessity of a wave concept as well as anyone else, but he followed the Newtonian principle that hypotheses should be avoided. In the light of wave mechanics alone, electrons lost their individualities, melted into a continuous field of negative electricity. But there was strong experimental evidence of "discontinuity," of individuality. For example, single electrons made tracks which...
...Engels which were so productive of enthusiasm has another and a less fortunate effect; they crystallized an opposition to the ideal which went to reinforce the more obvious opposition to its practice. Fascism labours under no such handicap. Its critics are never sure that they are attacking the concept rather than a mere imperfect application of it; and its high priests will appoint neither prophet nor creed to dispel a confusion that is so convenient...
...Speed Sirs: Your account of Professor Bohr's application of Professor Werner Heisenberg's concept of uncertainty to "everyday existence, where an inch is an inch, and a gallon is a gallon" (TIME, July 3, p. 40) recalled to mind an entertaining bit og testimony given in a lawsuit in which my father was counsel for one of the litigants. The case involved an automobile collision. Immediately before the collision, one of the automobiles had struck a cow; and during the trial it became important for the plaintiff to bring out the speed with which this...