Word: scientiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...common man the scientist is the authoritative master of a truth and a power to salvation. Here lies the key to well-being on this earth. It will win a war, improve education and morals...
...temptations which the scientist confronts, they are the classical ones of any priestly group: the temptation to spiritual pride, and the temptation that comes from the invitation to assume temporal authority...
...priestly caste, its very possession of the truth and the power unto salvation is a temptation to spiritual pride. Both religion and science are disposed to make a claim to infallibility. [But] the most virtuous priest may have his virtue corrupted by stupidity and ignorance, and the most intelligent scientist may have his wisdom distorted by pride and arrogance and the lust for personal prestige...
...temptation to temporal power which befalls the scientist is unlike that which troubled the priesthood in the classical theocracies. Ordinarily it is not proposed that the scientist should assume full and final authority in government. But so far as the scientist has pre-eminent prestige as the guardian of the truth and the power, his blessing will always be sought for a new cold cream or a fresh departure in foreign policy or an innovation in military technology. In most cases, judgment of the worth of the enterprise lies entirely outside the competence of the scientist as such...
Physicist DuBridge is all for unmanned satellites to study the earth and nearby space, and perhaps to orbit the moon. "A scientist," he said, "cannot help but be excited by this prospect. It opens up wholly new areas of exploration. A whole book could be written about what the astronomers would like to do with a telescope above the atmosphere...