“The brain,”writes GEORGE R. HARRISON,Dean of the School of Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “contains a hundred times as many nerve lines as the world’s entire telephone system. It is provided with automatic dialing throughout, and within limits it is self-repairing.”This article on the development of man’s intelligence is drawn from Dean Harrison’s new book, What Man May Be, soon to be published by Morrow.
One pound of uranium carries more releasable energy than 1500 tons of coal, and the solar energy that reaches the earth in a single day is equivalent to that released by two million Hiroshima A-bombs. Better control of these and other forms of energy is basic to man's progress.
"The passing of Einstein gives us a chance to stop and think how it felt to have been alive while one of the authentic great minds of all history was doing its work"
Distinguished for his teaching and for his research in the field of optics, GEORGE RUSSELL HARRISON has been Dean of Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1942. A scientist who can write with clarity for the layman, he is the author of Atoms in Action and How Things Work; and last spring when invited to deliver the Stearns Lecture at Phillips Academy, Andover, he produced this memorable and affirmative address.
Distinguished for his teaching, research, and wartime work in the field of optics, GEORGE R. HARRISON is Dean of Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Chairman of the American Institute of Physics.