Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientist's concern with the handling of information, with scholarly method, that may be most important in the Doty committee's thinking, for there have been suggestions that the committee should recommend a program for all of General Education almost exclusively devoted to the methods of scholarship. Scientists have always been convinced that method was the most important part of their eld, and have often suggested that the proper task of a Natural Sciences program was to teach scientific method. To some scientists, therefore, Reuben A. Brow preoccupation with method in Humanities is extremely appealing. But to most of those...
...scientist's concern with the present, with experimental evidence, and with codifying laws, is antithetical to a classically oriented program of General Education. When a scientist is concerned with the history of science, that history is extracurricular; the test of an economic theorem, a psychological law, or a chemical equation is its validity, not its history...
...thousand words, and it has not been my intention to do so. Rather, I am trying to emphasize that while a misunderstanding about science caused difficulty in the original program, it would be a error to over-correct that original error and cleave too closely to the scientist's concern for methods without a careful consideration of a program rather like that recommended by General Education in a for the a program of several Education a makes its meet of its view of the relation between academic education and the rest of the world, and it is important that this...
...library of information about the dim background of civilization. The current fashion is to work in tight teams, with experts at hand to debate every judgment. Yet for all the advantages of a burgeoning technology, the man who uses its gadgets least and operates most often as a solo scientist has contributed outstandingly to the expanding knowledge of the past...
Next summer he will be back at Ain-Mugharah again. "There is something there," he says, "not just things to find, but the threads of history to tie up. That is the great reward of my kind of exploring." Danger there may be, but to the scientist it is no more than a calculated risk. "What the explorer is after," says Explorer Glueck modestly, "is more important than his life...