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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparent hiatus between science and religion cannot be bridged so long as the theologian and the scientist remain true to their own field of activity. The scientist is concerned only with this material universe in the making. The theologian speculates on the force outside the universe and calls it divine. In the face of the infinite, the scientist can only exclaim: "My God, what a bang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1979 | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...stunning revelations are likely; a strong motive for trekking to Winnipeg is the sheer fun−or, as one scientist says, "the orgasmic experience"−of eclipse watching. But the scientists do follow in a distinguished tradition. It was during an eclipse in 1761 that scientists discovered the dense atmosphere of Venus; at such times the inner planet is higher in the sky, letting astronomers see it through less of the earth's atmosphere. Helium was found in the sun during an 1868 eclipse. And in 1919, British scientists measured the bending of starlight by solar gravity, thus providing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Matter of Night and Day | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...since he looked up from a laboratory bench at Boston University and decided that his future was at the typewriter, not the microscope. "I realized that I would never be a first-rate scientist," recalls Asimov. "But I could be a first-rate writer. The choice was an easy one: I just decided to do what I did best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Isaac Write? | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...which says, for example, that it is impossible to tell both the exact position and the momentum of a single atomic particle?an electron, say?because the very act of observing disturbs it. Only by statistical means (like those used to determine probability in dice or poker) can a scientist predict what the results of such an experiment will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: The Year of Dr. Einstein | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...virtually the same instant (any difference being due to air resistance). Einstein offered an explanation. Acceleration caused by gravity, he said, is indistinguishable from that caused by other forces. I That proposition is Einstein's 1 principle of equivalence. As usual, Einstein gave a graphic example. I Consider a scientist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: The Year of Dr. Einstein | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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