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Synthesizing ideas already in the air is hardly disreputable-Darwin and Marx did much the same thing-but Sulloway thinks that Freud went a bit far to create a myth about his absolute originality. Freud once accused Sexologist Albert Moll of stealing his concept of infant sexuality, though Moll had published his ideas on the subject nearly a decade before. When many observers spotted some of Freud's ideas in the work of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, Freud vehemently denied ever having read the two philosophers before inventing psychoanalysis. Sulloway thinks it unlikely: as a student in Vienna...
...later years, Freud also denied the links between psychoanalysis and biology, which Sulloway considers a tragic mistake. Freud's evolutionary notions of the instinctual and nonrational derive from Darwin, and in the 1890s he had dreamed of wedding psychology to biology. That all changed as Freud and his followers withdrew and obliterated all biological thinking from the movement...
...molecular biology's leap into prominence has been amply documented. In 1953, at Britain's venerable Cambridge University, two brash young scientists named James Watson and Francis Crick made a discovery comparable to the fissioning of the atom or Darwin's publication of Origin of Species. In a matter of months, after cribbing clues from associates and competitors, Watson, then 25, and Crick, 36, cracked what they grandiosely called "the secret of life": they unraveled the long, spiraling architecture of the DNA molecule, a feat that suggested how heredity truly worked...
When spring is near the urge to swing a golf club becomes a terrible and irrepressible force, and it was this irrepressible force that overtook Fitzgibbons yesterday afternoon. The sentiments of Fitzgibbons as he prepared to take the first swing of spring were echoed by Bernard Darwin when he wrote of his own first shot one spring long ago: "I was assured that I should be able to do it another day, but I did not want to do it another day; I may never want to do it on any other day, but I did so dreadfully want...
...Named for the ship that carried British Naturalist Charles Darwin on his 1831-36 voyage...