Word: originalism
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Peed said that phenomena such as free will and the origins of laws could not be traced to a scientific origin...
What makes this challenge even more difficult is that Dolly is not terribly real for most people. The very strangeness of her origin makes it seem abstract and irrelevant to everyday lives. Will cloning be a technology of the very wealthy and the depraved, sneaking up on the rest of the world without its understanding? Perhaps, like nuclear warfare or human eugenics, the full meaning of cloning will be felt only when we get a taste of its abuse...
...peaceable Nells. Goddard's trusting exchanges with German scientists had given Berlin at least a glimpse into what he was designing. What's more, by 1945 he had filed more than 200 patents, all of which were available for inspection. When a captured German scientist was asked about the origin of the V-2, he was said to have responded, "Why don't you ask your own Dr. Goddard? He knows better than any of us." When some V-2s finally made their way to the U.S. and Goddard had a chance to autopsy one, he instantly recognized...
...recall with great fondness my first visit to Nairobi in 1970 when Louis ceremoniously led me to the room housing the crown jewels of human evolution. Every fossil took on a mythical cast as he waxed eloquent about how it revealed some magic moment of our origins. Here he was, the grand master, sharing his passion, knowledge and intuition with a new disciple. He was often like that: generous, open, supportive, always trying to win new converts to his way of working, his way of interpreting the past. Born in Kenya of English missionaries, Louis was initiated by tribal elders...
...American radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson accidentally discover cosmic background radiation, which bolsters the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe...