Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anne L. Armstrong, LL.D, former Ambassador to Great Britain. Robert Redford, L.H.D., actor. Owner of a solar-powered home in Utah, you come to this campus for recognition as a powerful spokesman for environmental protection. David Riesman, Litt.D., educator and social scientist...
Such is not the case with his jockey, Gean Cruguef. However, jockey discipline is a matter of interest to the social scientist, not the sportswriter, and is therefore beyond the purview of this writer's credentials. But the phenomenal success of a thoroughbred who seems to need no guidance raises a question that has long dangled on the tongues of racing aficionados. Namely, how important is the jockey...
Brown's chief defense against such mistakes is a scientist's reverence for facts. Because he detests canned, military-style briefings, he insists on reading the background studies and documents himself before making a decision. As he zips through them?nearly as fast, it sometimes seems, as a computer scans punch cards?he pencils questions and comments along the margins in his almost microscopic handwriting. Next he peppers the Pentagon's experts with still more questions, until he is satisfied that he has squeezed the subject dry. "No one can snow him," boasts an aide...
School of Science in 1943. The class yearbook (dedicated in that wartime year to, among others., "the scientist who prepares weapons") twitted Brown for studying "every waking moment in order to raise his average above 99." Actually...
...Sagan's speculations are sound, the prospects of using physical laws to establish contact with such a civilization are encouraging. So are the prospects of communicating with it. Many of the scientists now beaming signals into the ether might find themselves speechless if someone - or something - should answer. They can always use the author as an interpreter. Carl Sagan already knows how to communicate with lay men. Any scientist who can perform that feat should find talking to extraterrestrials as easy...