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Darwin began as a gentleman naturalist. It was in, and for, the working out of his great idea that he became a specialist in zoology, taxonomy, geology, paleontology, animal breeding, plant breeding, embryology, animal behavior, human behavior, sociology and ecology (a discipline he essentially created). Einstein, too, was guided in his scientific work by a single vision. So was Edward Gibbon, who described the guiding idea of his multivolume historical and literary masterpiece, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a single short sentence: "I have described the triumph of barbarism and religion." These examples suggest that someone...
...method. The historian Daniel J. Boorstin writes in his introduction to The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that it "was the first extensive work of English literature (and history) that I read and reread. It occupied much of my thought during my university years as an undergraduate." Einstein recalls how he fell in love with mathematics: As a boy of 12, he came upon a copy of Euclid's Elements in his uncle's library. It was the theorems, not the proofs (which he skipped), that enthralled...
...made. Substance and method are both essential, and Core courses should not ignore method. But substance must come first. If a work of science, history, literature, or art doesn't capture and hold our interest or evoke a strong aesthetic response, as Gibbon did for Boorstin and Euclid for Einstein, why should we care how it was made...
...view the universe, a team of physicists say they've discovered evidence suggesting that the universe may have a "top" and "bottom." The proposal, by John Ralston of the University of Kansas and Borge Nodland of the University of Rochester, flies smack in the face of Einstein's theory of relativity, which posits that the universe is uniform in all directions. The new evidence indicates that the polarization, or direction of oscillation, of radio waves emanating from the constellation Sextans is different from radio waves emanating from constellations 90 degrees away -- something that could not happen if the universe...
...PEOPLE, March 17]. You trivialized her achievement by referring to her nude appearance in the film Ecstasy when she was just a teenager. Nine years later, without recompense, she gave her patent to the U.S. As a refugee from a fascist state, she is in the company of Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi and many other notable people. BURTON SEIWELL Nuremberg, Pennsylvania