Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1144

Notes for a letter to Arthur W. Pierce, 26 Thompson Place, Pittsfield, Massachusetts

1947?

 

Original is missing.

 

 

Dear Mr. Pierce:

 

Mrs. Blume writes me that your Society desires to avoid controversy over social or economic questions. She asks me to make some suggestions for meeting this condition in case I should have the honor of being asked to speak before you.

     I take it that your organization consists largely of persons of training, experience and a matured interest in scientific theory and practical technology and who are ripe for a somewhat broader mental perspective than is likely among those freshly trained or those who are still actively, intently and technically engaged. I think, therefore, I would most prefer to lay before you some well considered views upon the simple methods and procedures that have been most fruitful and remain most promising in scientific research. In my own investigations I have found these fundamentals simpler and much more charming to the imagination than seems to be generally supposed.

     For a formal topic I would suggest: “The Dimensions of Events,” or “The Three Fundamentals of Physical Science and Some of Their Applications.” The presentation would be from a new and simplified point of view suggesting interesting possibilities and still wider applications.

     The precise topic is not essential, it being understood that the presentation would be in popular and almost entirely non-technical form.

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Dear Mrs. Blume:

Many thanks for your two letters both of which have reached /?/ me. I have written Mr. Pierce as per copy which I enclose. I am sure that unless Mr. Pierce’s Union has laid down in physics as well as in politics some strict party line we can have an interesting and stimulating discussion without ideological conflict or opposition.