During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.”
April 22, 2013
A two-hour college lecture can seem extraordinarily long when you’re in your early 50s, even with a ten-minute break! But there I was sitting in Massachusetts Hall in Harvard Yard –surrounded by over a hundred “kids”- listening to Professor David Dressler talk about the life cycle of scientific breakthroughs. And I had brought this tedium on...