Word: scientiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long as Soviet Communism persists, the future of Western civilization and of Christianity itself will depend utterly on the progress of science, wherefore on our scientists . . . Our scientists live and work by a philosophy of freedom. Most of the leading wizards who have so far kept us ahead in the atomic race fled here from military dictation and just such assault as the Shepley-Blair "report" which TIME [Nov. 8] defends. Their attitudes cannot be evaluated by people who do not understand their scientific credo. They cannot work well under regimentation: you can lead a free scientist to water...
...asked me to pass moral judgment on these projects. They handed me the blueprints, they ordered the steel, and told me to make a delivery date . . . Now I'll grant that building an atomic bomb requires a higher order of intelligence than die making, but . . . the atomic scientists and Detroit's die makers are links in the same chain. The atomic scientist, for all his education (and probably finer moral development), is no more entitled to obstructionist tactics than the lowliest sweeper in the smallest die shop. We elect men to establish policy. We hire others to carry...
...True, the uneasy scientist who casts his lot with military-sponsored research is in a dilemma conceived in the unresolved conflict with his military counterpart [TIME, Nov. 1], but must he not hold himself accountable for an equal portion of this deplorable spectacle? Americans have a weakness for making heroes of all who "arrive"-movie stars, football players, etc. It is indeed regrettable that only a few so acclaimed can weather the strain without becoming stage-struck prima donnas. Generals and scientists are not exceptions . . . Many scientists now feature themselves as authorities on international and domestic politics, industrial and governmental...
...system that the U.S. Government has established to cope with the atomic age. Last week, in a letter to the Reporter magazine, Professor Einstein wrote: "If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances...
...works with a man, J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was recently elected to a new term as head of the institute despite the fact that the U.S. Government reluctantly removed his clearance to classified atomic energy documents. In his statement last week (which was promptly used for Communist propaganda), Scientist Einstein, who may know more about the universe than any other human being, showed that he knows less about the meaning and responsibilities of freedom...