Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leahy said Saturday, without naming Pipkin specifically, that the new associate dean "has an excellent reputation as a scientist and a teacher." He added that Pipkin's colleagues "thought highly enough of him" to put him in charge of the High Energy Physics Project, a federally-funded research project...
...Finance Minister and therefore will be a good President, a man who sees with clarity the problems and needs of his people. Others are not so sure. "Giscard never had a vision of the social problems of France in this campaign," says Maurice Duverger, a left-wing French political scientist. "He always sees everything in terms of the Finance Minister. Up to now he was always the second man, who was usually breaking social progress for budget reasons. Now he will be the master. But I don't think he has the human dimension...
...year 2050, the earth may be dangerously overpopulated and polluted. Even so, says a Princeton University scientist, there might be a way out for some of the world's teeming billions. By that time, according to Physicist Gerard K. O'Neill, streams of earthlings could well be en route to comfortable new homes in space...
...author wisely does not predict where man's skills will take him. As a scientist, he recognizes that human progress is governed by the same uncertainty principle that applies to the movement of electrons. Science can specify where a moving electron is at any given moment, but cannot tell where the electron started from or where it will stop. Nor can science be any more exact when it comes to man. His origins are shrouded in mystery. All that is certain is that man is still evolving and, if the past is really a prologue, ascending. · Peter Stoler
...Pirsig's borrowings, his Americanizing of Aristotle and the Zen archer will appear vulgar to some readers. To me the borrowings are signs of a vital writer, maybe a myth-maker. The "good mechanic" resonates in my own experience; he brings to mind a good friend, a mechanic and scientist...