Word: sherrington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a distinguished scientist, Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Britain's greatest physiologist, ventured an answer-a 413-page book entitled Man on His Nature (Macmillan, $3.75). Sherrington's studies of the nervous system won him a Nobel Prize...
Celestial Life. "The trend [of scientific thought] can be better judged," says Sherrington, "by comparison of general positions taken a significant interval apart." For contrast with his own views, Sherrington selects those of Jean-Fernel, greatest physician of the 16th Century. In an age obsessed with magic and astrology, hardheaded Fernel insisted on natural rather than supernatural causes for disease...
Through asking how, Sherrington explains, modern science has come to know what life is. Life is a chemico-physical system-nothing else. There is no boundary, no essential difference between the living and the nonliving...