Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prophecy of what man's mechanical ingenuity might lead to, and that prophecy is not a cheerful one. Samuel Butler's "Book of the Machines", which argues the menace of matter over mind, is the most engrossing chapter in "Erewhon" And a writer of even more recent date, a scientist of repute, has lately filled columns of the public press with his concern over man's future amidst the complicated machinery, his own creations, to which he has gradually become a slave...
...scientist has made the prediction that our descendants of the ninth or tenth generation will be so crowded into the area of the United States that there will not be space for them all to live comfortably, nor resources to provide them with food. In a few centuries the world will have reached its "saturation point" but by that time of course, we may be in communication with Mars, and if Mars has any room for our excess population we may be able to emigrate to the "new world". But if scientists fall in reach our sister planet by radio...
...vivid flash comes the realization that men are atoms living on the hardened crust of a boiling pot--on a tiny ball itself whirling among countless similar balls, according to one vast plan. Today the earth merely trembles, the seismograph vibrates, and the scientist asks: "Somewhere...
There is much to stir the imagination in the picture of an angry, writhing, poisonous snake pinned firmly to the operating table in the reptile house at the Zoo, and encouraged by a scientist to strike at a bit of parchment covering a glass retainer. Instead of destroying, the snake is thus enlisted in the work of saving human life...
...excess as well in the use of a language as in any other species of human thought and action; super-conceits are only ridiculous. But it does seem as though even leaving English. A and the "red-cap" out of the question the average person, be he litterateur, scientist of philosopher, should be willing both to listen and speak with some degree of care. More than that, he must do so if he is to succeed in his chosen field. Examples to strengthen this argument are unnecessary, surely. Not that "the man on the street" ought to be able...