French geneticist and medical doctor Jérôme Lejeune (1926-1994) is famous in two fields of human endeavor that are often falsely placed at odds with each other, namely, science and religious faith. As ...

IF by ‘science’ we mean an organized knowledge of the world we live in, adequate to give us some degree of power over that world, and if by ‘mysticism’ we mean the quintessential part of religion, or ...

Robert Boyle (1627-1691) ranks with Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday and Charles Darwin among the greatest of English scientists. In his laboratory practice and in books such as "The Sceptical Chymist" ...

DIAMOND, Mo. — For many, George Washington Carver will forever be remembered as one of the most prominent scientists of the 20th century. For others, he symbolizes a man much attuned to nature who ...

Charles Darwin -- arguably the most influential man of science in history, accumulated a vast personal library throughout his working life. Until now, 85 per cent of its contents were unknown or ...

Sir George Cayley, recently (Dec. 15) deceased in England, at the advanced age of 84 years, was a prominent inventor and a man of science. He invented a hot air engine, long before the Ericsson was ...

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Historians differ about which battles were really decisive and about which great men of history were really great. Few will differ about Italian-born Physicist Enrico Fermi, a great man of science who ...

IT is sometimes cast in the teeth of the man of science that his interests are narrow and lacking in culture, and that though he has something to say, his literary attainments are not such as to ...

You probably remember that George Washington Carver invented over 300 uses for peanut butter. Did you know that while at Tuskegee Institute he became one of the world's foremost experts in ...

IT is not too much to say that for the first time in the history of the British Empire Science is coming into her own. It is no doubt humiliating to have to confess that it was the misapplied science ...