Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quill or silverpoint* to paper, he produced pictures more subtly and precisely finished than most modern "masterpieces." Da Vinci knew how good his drawings were, hoarded the odd scraps carefully. Mostly quick studies of things which interested him, they showed that the giant of the Renaissance was as much scientist as artist...
When it comes to talking about the end of the world, a soldier has as much right to his say as a scientist has. Before the Senate Atomic Energy Committee. Major General Leslie Groves, military father of the atomic bomb, was asked about that interesting possibility: a too-successful chain-reaction explosion that might destroy the world (TIME, Dec. 3). Said the General: "If it happens, it will all be over-and we won't have to explain that...
...street had heard, but did not yet believe, that some day a scientist somewhere-perhaps in the U.S. -might press a button that would set up an atomic chain reaction and blow up the world (see SCIENCE). He took the news, as he took all news that did not affect his own immediate, personal wellbeing, in stride. It was too big for headlines, too big for him to comprehend. Anyhow, somebody would see to it that it did not happen...
...told Scientist Peter Kapitza to "build whatever you need" for basic atomic research...
...there anyone who still talks about the materialism of science?" wrote Robert Andrews Millikan, Caltech's famed physi cist. "Rather does the scientist join with the psalmist of thousands of years ago in reverently proclaiming, 'the Heavens de clare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth His handiwork.' " Hungarian-born Rene FtilSp-Miller, a onetime hermit on Mt. Athos who has written biographies of Pope Leo XIII, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Lenin and Gandhi, sees Physicist Millikan 's attitude as part of "a new 'renaissance,' which is about to bring back man's appreciation...