Word: scientistic
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There is an overlap between technical information and national security which inevitably produces tension. This tension results from the scientist's desire for unconstrained research and publication, on the one hand, and the federal government's need to protect certain information from potential foreign adversaries who might use that information against this nation...
...junior faculty most satisfied with their experience at Harvard seem to be those most reconciled with the transitory nature of the position. "It's actually easier," says one young scientist who feels he has little chance for tenure here. "There's nothing hanging over my head...I can do things to promote my career and take advantage of the resources here...
There can be no argument that to be a physician requires a working knowledge of the sciences which are basic to medicine. This does not imply that to be a physician one must be a biological scientist, anymore than an engineer must be a pure mathematician and a theoretical physicist. On the other hand, it does not follow that a well-trained scientist cannot be a good physician. The practice of medicine, if nothing else, is pluralistic and can accommodate people with wide variety of skills, knowledge and understanding. There are limits to the science which needs to be known...
Jones points out, however, that most of the scientist are taking different approaches to the problem...
Seurat was the wayward child of impressionism. Renoir and Sisley might seek to catch life on the fly; he would aspire to stasis. Their voluptuous brushstrokes were too imprecise, too sensational for this artist-scientist. Seurat worked dot by meticulous dot, woodpeckering the canvas with pricks of color that would fuse into meaning in the spectator's eye. So it is with the sculptor in Act II of Sunday in the Park with George. This George composes bit by bit, or byte by byte. He has created a computerized sculpture, Chromolume #7 (chromo-luminarism is an other critical term...