Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with arrest in Russia for such statements, is now both bemused and bewildered. "Why didn't they simply imprison me at home instead of waiting to take away my citizenship while I am abroad?" he asked. He intends to appeal the decision. If he fails, the highly trained scientist expects to stay in the U.S. with his wife Vera-and to ask the Kremlin for a bill for his higher education in a gesture of solidarity with Soviet Jews, who are often required to pay exorbitant "education taxes" when allowed to emigrate (TIME, Sept...
...moon's fifth scientific station and drove their battery-powered rover across 22.5 miles of the cratered valley. They took more than 2,000 photographs, and turned up what may well be the first positive evidence of relatively recent volcanic activity on the moon. Said Schmitt, the first scientist to walk the moon: "This valley has seen mankind complete his first evolutionary steps in the universe. I think no more significant contribution has Apollo made to history...
...scientist noted that prehistorians and archaeologists had previously placed the advent of communication with the Homo sapiens sapiens, which followed Cro-Magnon in evolution...
...This Achevlian hunter was accumulating over a period of time a series of symbols and images. It is remarkable that he was structuring his life symbolically, and that he was coming back to the same image and using it time after time." the 54-year-old scientist said...
...reader, reputed to have a speculative, even impractical mind, and notorious as a bad scientist, seizes on such sentences and enters them in a notebook crammed with similar apercus. In this act, and in its cause (here, Eddington's observation), the reader's temperament is revealed, a temperament at once impatient and imbued with languor, undiscipfiined and ordered. It conspires to receive all ideas as echoes of other ideas, on a diachronic level. In other words, whenever the reader happens to notice an idea which resonates through time, associations clamor like heirs to be recognized, and a number of them...