Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's great scientists died in Moscow last fortnight. He was almost unknown in the U.S. Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky was a cosmic thinker who founded a cosmic science which he called "biogeochemistry"-the study of life against the vast background of geological time...
...time man becomes a large-scale geological force.... Wider and wider creative possibilities open before him. It may be that the generation of our grandchildren will approach their blossoming. . . . Fairy-tale dreams appear possible in the future; man is striving to emerge beyond the boundaries of his planet into cosmic space. And he probably will...
...mankind's most reassuring cosmic thinkers died last week. Death came at 61 to cool, unruffled Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, Cambridge University astronomer, in a Cambridge nursing home...
...scientists, Sir Arthur was affectionately known as the senior partner in the firm of "Eddington & [Sir James] Jeans, Interpreters of the Universe." Shy, neat, reed-nosed Sir Arthur looked precisely like the British university don he was, and he discoursed on his cosmic subject with a wit and clarity rare among scientists. He set down in brook-clear language a masterly simplification of Einstein's theory of relativity, spent most of his life explaining the enigmas of abstract science for the benefit of laymen (The Nature of the Physical World, The Expanding Universe). He enlivened these lessons with attempts...
...vastly comforting. He once predicted that the expanding universe, "this ball of radio waves," would end in "one stupendous broadcast," but gave assurance that this event would not take place for perhaps 90 billion years. As for man, Eddington dismissed him as "one of the gruesome results" of a cosmic accident by which "some lumps of matter of the wrong size have occasionally been formed...