Views on Science Policy of the Nobel Laureates for 1982: Hearing Before the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, February 23, 1983U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983 - 106 pages |
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Page 26 - He was named in 1965 as the head of the then Department of Geology and Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which, under his leadership, expanded into planetary sciences, oceanography, interdisciplinary studies, and the joint program with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and was renamed the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. In 1977 he was appointed by President Carter as the President's Science Advisor and Director of the Office of Science and Technology...
Page 82 - The earth revolves with me, yet makes no motion, The stars pale silently in a coral sky. In a whistling void I stand before my mirror, Unconcerned, and tie my tie.
Page 77 - They should ever be held as doubtful, and liable to error and change; but they are wonderful aids in the hands of the experimentalist and mathematician. For not only are they useful in rendering the vague idea more clear for the time, giving it something like a definite shape, that it may be submitted to experiment and calculation; but they lead on, by deduction and correction, to the discovery of new phaenomena, and so cause an increase and advance of real physical truth, which, unlike the hypothesis...
Page 77 - It is not to be supposed for a moment that speculations of this kind are useless, or necessarily hurtful, in natural philosophy. They should ever be held as doubtful, and liable to error and to change ; but they are wonderful aids in the hauds of the experimentalist and mathematician.
Page 27 - President, Dr. Press will continue a long career of public service, in addition to his distinguished scientific work. He served on the President's Science Advisory Committee during the Kennedy Administration and on the Baker and Ramo Presidential Advisory' Committee during the Ford Administration. He was appointed by President Nixon to the National Science Board, which is the policy-making body of the National Science Foundation, and he also served on the Lunar and Planetary Missions Board of the...
Page 26 - Carter as the President's Science Advisor and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. In January 1981, he returned to MIT where he was appointed Institute Professor, a title MIT reserves for scholars of special distinction. Dr. Press returned to Washington in July 1981 as the 19th President of the National Academy of Sciences, elected by its members to a six-year term. Dr. Press is recognized internationally for his pioneering contributions in geophysics, oceanography, lunar and...
Page 27 - People's Republic of China. As NAS president, Dr. Press will continue a long career of public service, in addition to his distinguished scientific work. He served on the President's Science Advisory Committee during the Kennedy Administration and on the Baker and Ramo Presidential Advisory Committee during the Ford Administration. He was appointed by President Nixon to the National Science Board, which is the policy-making body of the National Science Foundation, and he also served on the Lunar and...
Page 69 - back off," "slow down", and give students time to follow and absorb the development of a small number of major scientific ideas. For example, a course could concentrate on one or more of the following ideas. * Why do we believe the earth revolves around the sun? In what context and theory is this statement true?
Page 78 - Ian physics in the atomic realm, it is interesting to ask them to contrast with Faraday's statement the sadder and wiser one by Oppenheimer: We come to our new problems full of old ideas and old words, not only the inevitable words of daily life, but those which experience has shown fruitful over the years. . . We love the old words, the old imagery, and the old analogies, and we keep them for more and more unfamiliar and more and more unrecognizable things.
Page 79 - ... gram of carbon in the other compound, one should find perhaps 2.6 or 0.65 or 3.9 grams of oxygen, or some other quantity that bore a small whole number ratio to 1.3. One would expect just such simple numerical relations if compounds did indeed consist of molecules made up of small numbers of atoms of the combining elements. The data had never been examined this way; this particular orderliness lay hidden behind the unrevealing percentage compositions. Dalton looked, and the order was there; he...