Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just that nations should reward those who sacrifice so much in their defence, and there is little complaint to make on this score. But how long has it been since a noted British scientist bitterly accused his government of casting its geniuses on the scrap-heap." His point is too fully confirmed by history; it is Turner who dies in poverty, not Wellington; Socrates who drinks the hemlock, not Pericles...
...twentieth century learning. With the coming of the Renaissance men's minds were stimulated and enlivened by a multitude of new emotions and discoveries. The student strove for omniscience no less than the artist or the man of letters. Leonardo da Vinci was, in his day, as great a scientist and engineeer as he was a painter. In the field of science, however, his work has been superseded, while his painting still lives; so we are prone to forget that in his lifetime he spent almost as much time at one as at the other. Even in the Renaissance...
...Every scientist is bound to believe that his is the most important of all sciences. Unless he were an enthusiast, he would weary of the drudgery entailed in the collection of the quantities of facts which are necessary for the business of scientific inquiry. Political scientists have the least excuse for weariness, since theirs is the science of life itself in its most highly developed form, that of the citizen. But unfortunately theirs is the most imperfect of all the sciences. To some that leads to impatience with politics, since it is so baffling and too often also so insincere...
...pleasant green gardens, surrounded by the aroma of bear, sausage and aged cheese. Yet out of this easy environment have come great geniuses and famous systems of education. Before the war, musicians considered a German "degree" the better part of talent, philologists founded their learning on German teachings, no scientist was a scientist without his two or three years in Germany...
Henry Miller adequately gives a Pasteur who is a scientist to his finger tips and bristling with loving kindness...