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...long ago as 1931, Britain's Physicist Charles Galton Darwin, grandson of the late Charles Darwin, compared physics to "a mother who has given birth to several healthy children, but has not yet recovered sufficiently to know what is going to hap pen next." More closely now than ever does physics resemble a bewildered and bewildering Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe...
...modern science." TIME apparently substantiates this by listing the books studied but, curiously enough, it omits the books read in the fourth year. The books are read chronologically, and the fourth year, which is devoted exclusively to "modern thinkers, modern science," includes among others: Voltaire, Marx, James, Freud, Faraday, Darwin, Russell & Whitehead, Hilbert, Gauss. I suspect that St. John's College is the only liberal arts college in America which requires of every student four years of laboratory science. It also requires four years of mathematics, four years of languages...
Last week it became known in England that Dr. Charles Galton Darwin, mathematical physicist, distinguished grandson of Charles Darwin, would move into the Teddington palace, having been appointed N.P.L.'s new director...
Onetime Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University, Dr. Darwin, 50, has been Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, since 1936. In 1931 he compared physics to "a mother who has just given birth to several healthy children, but has not yet recovered sufficiently to know what is going to happen next." Physics has given birth to several other children since then, and Physicist Darwin will try to deal with them all, since research in pure science as well as industrial work goes on at N.P.L. He will move into the palace with a wife and five real...
...1880s, Alfred Russell' Wallace, great British biologist who originated independently the theory of natural selection at the same time as Charles Darwin, visited the U. S. He lectured at a small agricultural college in Kansas, stayed at the house of the college president. One student who listened to him with particularly wide-eyed wonder was the president's son, David Fairchild, who had already resolved to be a botanist, was studying parasitic fungi and the wind-borne movements of Kansas tumbleweed...