Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...support of religion). Beebe-Center--a man who did the work of ten--used to say, 'Eliot is a University man, Lowell is a College man, Conant is a University man.' Doubtless he would say Pusey is a College man. This calms me down tremendously. Eliot was a scientist, Conant was a scientist, and the next President should be a scientist...
Space last week was a place for a pilot's reflexes and a scientist's judgments. It was a place for cool human reason based firmly on technical knowledge. Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper's performance in his Faith 7 space capsule was a dramatic rejection of any argument that machines alone and not man will be the key to the future exploration of space...
...responsibility of the scientist is to find out about the physical world," he contended, "and to increase our power over nature. How these tools are used is clearly not the responsibility of the scientist. For instance, a nuclear explosion can be used for aggression; it can also be used to deter aggression, build harbors, deflect rivers, or as a scientific tool to find out more about nature. By itself a nuclear explosion is neither good nor bad. The way it is used makes it either good...
After the scientist obtains knowledge, Teller said, he has the task of "saying clearly what he has found, what his findings mean, and how this additional power can be used. Once these points are clearly and simply explained, his responsibility is ended...
Teller stressed that his own more restricted view of the scientist's responsibility does not make it less heavy. "In way it may be greater, for others cannot do these things; we scientists must them or the job will be undone...