Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newton, probably the most important of all scientists, is surely nine-tenths myth. Absent-minded, able to concentrate exclusively on his work for long hours during his fertile period, and generally refusing to pay any attention to getting his work published. Newton is the type of the Scientific Genius. But...
PAULING is the book's hero-at-a distance (when he dines with Pauling near the end of the book Watson proudly writes that Pauling prefers his youthful company to Crick's). But Watson's other scientist-characters are viewed from up close, and you can smell them. From the...
It does not have to be this way. One act of good faith could transform this situation like the stroke of a sword. One decent act on the order of "the fourth alternative is to remove you by force. And none of us is prepared even to consider this"--one...
cockpit And some technical-minded stranger
As Nixon's economists go, McCracken leans slightly to the left. But he can hardly be considered doctrinaire. He will likely recommend the use of the same tax-and-monetary tools relied on by the New Economists, but more sparingly. He believes that the Democrats have thoroughly mismanaged the...