Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, Natural Sciences 11a, part of the General Education program which President Conant himself helped to bring into being, originated from his long-standing belief that the scientist, his role, and his methods are misunderstood by the layman...
Comparing the methods of today's and yesterday's researcher, he said that "it is our contention that the way the seventeenth century scientist would grope for what we now consider the basic law is the same way the scientist works today...
...Considerable emphasis will be placed on the relation of sciences to other social, intellectual, and historical growth," he stated, adding. "This will not only be a course in understanding the scientist, but also one in how and why he works...
...play that is just two hours long should not attempt to do too much, and this one tries unsuccessfully to combine serious thinking about the problems of a modern, liberal scientist with a pixie-like humor derived from having a character play the scientist's mind. Raymond Massey, as the former, reads the New Republic and for three acts carefully compares the validity of his duties to his family and to the world. Meanwhile an assortment of bad and middling actors walk in and out, dramatizing the arguments each way. This sort of thing begins to be terribly tedious toward...
...eccentricities, "How I Wonder" tries very hard to be honest. The scientist can take the presidency of a Southern college and keep quiet on political questions, or he can give up everything and in his ineffectual way try to prevent another war. A woman from another planet, also in his mind, makes up his mind for him, when atomic fission explodes her planet and it becomes a star, which he finds on his photographic plates. By this time the much-bruited question of whether the fellow is out of his mind should have been settled, but the author still seems...