Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knows the 'good', the philosopher or scientist or scholar, ought to have decisive power in government and it is his knowledge alone which entitles him to this," Plato's Republic...
...Since the end of September, astronomers have observed a dust storm on the planet. Spreading at the rate of 20 or 30 m.p.h., the yellowish cloud now obscures much of the planet's surface and is one of the most severe blowups ever witnessed through terrestrial telescopes. Some scientists are delighted with this rare chance of witnessing close up one of Mars' puzzling storms, which seem to occur when the planet moves closest to the sun and the Martian surface heats up. Others are equally concerned that the dust may obscure the view through Mariner's twin...
...science, not less." U.C.L.A.'s Dr. William Longmire Jr. shares that concern. Says he: "There comes a time when a doctor has to decide whether the dose of digitalis is five point zero or zero point five. He cannot be a judge then. He has to be a scientist...
...homosimian parallels or insist that psychocosmic mysteries can be solved by watching a bunch of monkeys in a tree. Yet the parallels are strong, and so is the reader's temptation to see in the chimpanzee a hairy mirror of mankind. A woman as well as a scientist, Jane loves her subjects and makes the reader love them too-not as clever pets but as serious and struggling individuals. All the more painful, then, to be told that throughout Africa chimpanzees are being shot for the pot by natives and pursued by professional hunters who knock off the mothers...
Even with such sophisticated tools as strain gauges, laser beams and magnetometers to determine the buildup of dangerous stresses in the earth, scientists have had little success in forecasting major earthquakes. But as they have attempted to develop more complex quake-prediction devices, they may have been overlooking a simple one that predates man. A U.S. Government scientist reports that nature itself may provide a primitive early-warning system in the periodic eruptions of spectacular geysers like Yellowstone National Park's Old Faithful...