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There is also danger in the notion that society can choose what it wants of science and destroy what it feels is valueless or threatening. "Science is indivisible," Lessing states, "a seamless web of accumulated knowledge, and to destroy a part would rip the whole fabric. Every discovery or invention of man has this dual aspect"-a potential for both benefit and harm. He warns that it does no good to try to retreat to an earlier century, and he quotes Konrad Lorenz, the famed naturalist and animal behaviorist, who has been warning hostile student audiences that if they tear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In Defense of Science | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...just be setting myself up for a rip-off if I ever got into any kind of hassle with the dude. Because if I got into a hassle, I'd still be a person, but he'd have to be a pig. It'd happened to me so many times, that whole riff...

Author: By Arthur H. Lubow, | Title: Michael Crichton: Erich Segal Spelt Backwards? Take the Money and Run Dealing | 3/4/1971 | See Source »

...spring feeding the machine simple grammar, assorted stanzaic patterns and a vocabulary of 950 words that she selected by letting her finger fall blindly on poems in classical and avant-garde anthologies. Then she had the computer's random number generator make the word selections and let it rip-at two stanzas a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Programmed Poetry | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

...niggeress don't use up all the water, and if there should happen to be another feller or missis going your way, and if there's a barrel of flour or a keg of whiskey for the baggage-car, and if Bill kin put astitch in the worst rip in the biler [here in winked], I don't see what's to hender but we mought get so's to be eff some time Thursday, that's day after tomorrow. Anyhow, stranger, I would advise you to be round then." Well, the long and short it, it was cards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Through the Past, Howsomever- The Crimson, 1876 | 2/12/1971 | See Source »

Cornell has had its disappointments this year, but its momentum is heading in the opposite direction of Harvard's. After a miserable early season that saw the Red's 30 game winning streak crumble with two straight losses to R.P.I. and Brown. Cornell has come back to rip off seven wins...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Hockey Team Tackles Twice-Beaten Cornell | 1/8/1971 | See Source »

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