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...whole 4.3%. The inflation rate is still 9% per year. To slow it, Heath this month announced his Phase III-to a national chorus of "Let's-wait-and-see" doubts. Sometimes indeed it seems as if the whole country is suffering from what Author Arthur Koestler calls the "Struthonian Effect" -or the Ostrich Syndrome...
Such fanciful musings as Feinberg's are hard to refute definitively, especially in view of the proliferation of weird subatomic particles discovered by physics (more than 15 at last count). At least so says Arthur Koestler, the novelist and interpreter of science who once compared Rhine's work favorably with that of Copernicus. In his recent book The Roots of Coincidence, Koestler calls on his considerable skills as a popularizer of modern quantum physics to buttress his beliefs. Matter, he notes, quoting Bertrand Russell, is "a convenient formula for describing what happens where...
...most scientists, there are already enough mysteries to contemplate without such conjecturing. Indeed, recent discoveries in astronomy alone seem to have turned scientists into what Koestler calls "Peeping Toms at the keyhole of eternity." Many of them, for example, believe that those incredibly bright objects known as quasars (for quasi-stellar) sit at the very "edge" of the universe; that possibility got renewed support only last week when astronomers reported finding a quasar that may be as distant as 12 billion light-years from earth. A dissenting minority, including Fred Hoyle, offers another startling view: quasars are nearby objects, possibly...
...reduce its incidence. But only a few people are interested in this practice, she says, "because most people don't care enough about it to be reinforced by it." A major criticism of Skinner's theory of human behavior is that it represents, in the words of Arthur Koestler, "question-begging on a heroic scale," and here is a perfect example. If people have to be interested in something before they can be reinforced by it, then reinforcement obviously presumes the very thing it is supposed to create: an inclination to perform the action in question...
...Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World, are such examples. These works could be considered autonomous, in that their survivance is related to no specific epoch or lineage. Their titles have been handed on to me through other authors: in the case of Vambery, Arthur Koestler, in The Invisible Writing, while Eddington is quoted in Walter Benjamin's Illuminations...