Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientists and scientific research-"There has been avoid ance if not evasion of the intellectual tax that must be paid if we are to balance our intellectual budget"-and for a greater awareness by scientists of their national, social, human duty. "The specialist," he said, "must shun the view that lopsidedness is laudable. He must be politically and morally responsible." Most notably in the context of his new job, Killian expressed sharp skepticism about U.S. defense's present three-service structure. "So far," he said, "we have not been able, in the definition of the roles and missions...
Science & Baseball. There is one underlying reason, in Edward Teller's view, for both the neglect of science education and the lack of appreciation for pure research: "A tone deafness toward science in our .society at large." If the public had an ear for science, then the taxpayers would be more willing to support pure research and science education, and more schoolchildren would get interested in science. Like many gifted scientists, Teller believes there is no special inborn talent for science, feels that talent is basically intense interest. The way to produce future scientists is to get them interested...
...resonant voice for political moderation in the Southern Democratic Party. Battle, who prevented a Southern walkout at the 1952 Democratic Convention, is a segregationist but not a violent racist, as governor made large strides in improving Virginia's Negro schools. He promises to represent the "strong Southern view," i.e., anti-integration, pro-law and order...
Moscow reminded the world that Russia's leap into space has implications beyond the scientific and the military. A poem in the Russian magazine Krokodil indicates that creation, from a Communist point of view, is at last under new management. Concluding verse...
...moral issue in the attitude of the Anti-Vivisection Society, which he lampoons. Does he know of the reflections on this subject by Albert Schweitzer in Reverence for Life or by Carl von Weizsacker (who gave a course on Scientific Method at Harvard in Summer, 1952), in The World View of Physics or by Martin Buber in I and Thou? Is he prepared to reject all philosophical slantings from Hinduism on the dangers of the development of power by the exploitation of lower by higher intelligences or in the regarding of living beings as "things...