Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry, has been singled out as the University's "leading contributor to science and the benefit of mankind," with the first award of the newly-established George Ledlie Prize...
...space. Einstein's scratchpad theorems broke through the thought barriers of knowledge and rewrote the basic scientific law of the universe. The now-mundane miracle of television is a splinter off Einstein's achievement; the mushroom clouds of atomic fission and hydrogen fusion are his unwanted monuments; mankind's chance to turn earth-shaking force into good is his legacy...
...researching to learn how to transform individuals and groups into more altruistic and creative beings who would feel, think, and behave as real members of a mankind un united into one intensely solid family," Sorokin stated...
...particular army. It is not even any particular form of government. It is this Idea of Man." The U.S. finds itself frustrated in fighting this idea to the extent that the U.S. itself shares it. If often since the war the U.S. has stood more or less speechless before mankind, unable "to breathe life into what we ourselves believe," the failure is not merely one of propaganda, political warfare or communication-it lies in America's own philosophical tradition, in its unlimited faith in material progress and its excessive optimism about human nature. Faith, not so much in pure...
...have happened without the basic research of past years." Yet, despite all its useful byproducts, pure research stands apart. It is motivated not by the need for an answer to an immediate problem, said Seaborg, but by an "intellectual curiosity [which can] be rated with the highest qualities of mankind," with far-reaching, broad goals and indefinite deadlines. Out of such curiosity come the discoveries which guide all scientific endeavor...