Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Advice to a Young Scientist, by Peter Medawer (if that book's been grabbed at the local library. Williams recommends The Uniqueness of the Individual by the same author...
Williams has read those books. So he plans to tackle A Collection of Nobel Lectures in Molecular Biology from 1933-1975, edited by his friend David Baltimore. In addition to reading numerous journals including Science, Nature. The New Scientist, Scientific American, and Natural History, he plans to peruse G. Ledyard Stebbin's Darwin to DNA: Molecule to Humanity...
Facing these problems, the university in 1976 hired Swearer, a political scientist by educational background and a seasoned administrator with six years behind him as the budget-balancing president of Carleton College in Minnesota. Swearer put together a team that brought Brown back into the black. Today, endowment stands at a healthy $144 million, the faculty is first rate, and student recruiting programs seem to have yielded rich dividends. This year the admissions committee was exultant over the quality of the 12,000 applicants for Brown's 1,360 freshman openings. The yield rate, the number of accepted students...
...Absolute Spirit or what have you Wilber does not attempt to reconcile science and religion but instead shows how they are part of the same endeavor, the Atman Project--humanity's constant striving for knowledge of an absolute, such as the Buddhist Atman. As Wilber points out, not all scientists would admit to this. "A scientist who guffaws at the existence of any sort of "infinite" but unashamedly marvels aloud at the 'laws of Nature (with a capital N') is unwittingly expressing religious or numinous sentiments...
Today, that distinction is about as quaint as a fairy tale. Earlier this week, Harvard successfully concluded negotiations with Morris P. Fiorina, a California Institute of Technology political scientist who applies empirical data to topics in the American electoral process. And last week, the Sociology Department made offers to three scholars who depend on computers for their research in social issues...