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...mathematical sciences, it tends to become more and more cowardly in its finding of facts and less and less courageous in the exploitation of such facts as it finds. Whereas the physical scientist boldly builds his breathtaking, ever-broadening structures upon precisely exact measurements extending far within the ten-thousandth of an inch, our social and political scientists tend constantly to broaden their basic concepts out of all semblance to necessary foundational depth ... In its progressively and ever more involved search for truth, socalled, the mind of our typical social scientist is now so wide open that it is utterly...
...agony of patience," he writes. "At the thousandth bate in a day, on an arm that ached to the bone . . . merely to twitch him gently back to the glove . . . to reassure him with tranquillity, when one yearned ... to pound, pash, dismember!" After three days and three nights, the hawk fell asleep. The next day he was as wild as ever...
...ORDVAC, watched with admiration, the Illinois professors who built the machine fed problem after problem into its twinkling innards. ORDVAC added numbers at the rate of 10,000 per second. It finished twelve-digit problems in multiplication (e.g., 428,945,437,246 times 342,873,937,895) in one thousandth of a second. It did complex problems that required it to "remember" elaborate sets of instructions. It "generated" 352 random numbers and manipulated them in the subtle ways that delight mathematicians. One endurance test, involving floods of figures, took twelve hours. Every 45 seconds, ORDVAC reported smugly that progress...
...phenomenon in physics . . . During the war, in order to avoid using the somewhat revealing word "microsecond" in telephone conversations, it was dubbed the "dollar" in one section of the Manhattan project, so that what is now a shake became a "penny." The "jiffy" has been used for one ten-thousandth of a shake and probably for other short intervals...
...shortest time that physicists are likely to mention nowadays is a ten-thousandth of a millionth of a millionth of a millionth of a second (i.e., 10 23 sec.), which is about the time it takes a photon (corpuscle of light) to traverse the diameter of an atomic nucleus, but there seems little prospect of ever being able to measure...