Word: scientiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Paul Stapp is the son of my colleague, Missionary Charles F. Stapp. Knowing something of the joyous humor and the tenacious spirit of his good father, the character of his saintly mother, I could better understand the practical philosopher, the generous-hearted doctor and the scientist, who does not count his life dear unto himself, if only he can live up to his self-chosen ideals...
Last week Sylvester prescribed the appropriate beverage to go with reducing diets: "Lighter fluid." Sylvester can seldom resist a pun. He told about the vending machine that sells flowers and gives "change in peonies," and the vacationing scientist who posted a sign on his office, "Gone Fission." When the German Chancellor flew to Moscow, Sylvester wondered: "Due to time changes, did he have to Adenauer...
...opening journey through a troubled corner of The Company's world brought Author Edson McCann (pseudonym for "a government scientist") a $6,500 contest prize as 1955's best science-fiction story. But, with its minimum of electronic gadgetry and with no space excursions at all, Preferred Risk stays close to the ground and takes a jitney ride along the broad highway charted by George Orwell six years ago in 1984. Author McCann, throwing politics away as excess baggage, just zips along, fast, wry, and sometimes ingenious...
Steeped in the common-sense science of the Victorian Age, the public thinks of scientists as dangerous warlocks. "The popular picture of the scientist," says Bronowski, "lends itself to the basic totalitarian tricks which exploit the insecurity of the ignorant: an awe of the specialist, a hidden hatred of him, and a cleft between his way of thinking and theirs...
...public "puts its fear of the scientist into robust terms-he is going to blow man off the earth, or (in alternate weeks) he is going to overpopulate...