Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These planetary colonies, thinks Dr. Stapledon, might bring about earthwide luxury and ease. But the effort should not be made, said Dr. Stapledon (who, for a scientist, is something of a moralist*); from such low motives. The only respectable and sufficient motive would be to stimulate and diversify the growth of the human spirit. The hardy, high-stepping Martians, the heat-resistant Venerians, the squat, four-legged Jovians and Saturnians with their triple proboscises-all would contribute, Dr. Stapledon thinks, to the spiritual growth of the U.S.S. (United Solar System...
SANSS will hold its next meeting Tuesday, October 26, when Professor Wendell Furry will discuss "The Place of the Scientist in Society...
Later meetings will discuss "The Place of the Scientist in Society," "The Cultural Significance of Science and Its Role in Education,' and "The Empirical Method in Natural and Social Science...
True to his early sympathies, he went to live in Britain. At the end of World War I, when Prime Minister David Lloyd George offered him any honors he wished for the brilliant services he had rendered Britain as a scientist, Weizmann declined. Said he: "There is only one thing I want -a national home for my people." A few months later, the Balfour Declaration of a Jewish homeland was published...
...days later, the report said, a Soviet Embassy official went to Nelson's home, gave him "ten bills of unknown denominations." The committee recommended that Nelson be prosecuted for espionage and cited for contempt of Congress. It said that the testimony of "Scientist X," who swore that he had never known Nelson, would be turned over to the Attorney General...