From Immigrant to Inventor

Name: From Immigrant to Inventor
Author: Pupin, Michael

Pupin, Michael

Inventors -- United States -- Biography; Pupin, Michael, 1858-1935

The moral of this experience is, that mental culture is not secured
  by pouring information into passive recipients; it comes from
  stimulating the mind to gather knowledge for itself.... If we would
  fit man properly to cultivate nature ... our earliest teachings
  must be things and not words.

Doctor John William Draper, the world-renowned American investigator of
the laws of radiation from hot bodies, said:

  Nowhere in the world are to be found more imposing political
  problems than those to be settled here; nowhere a greater need
  of scientific knowledge. I am not speaking of ourselves alone,
  but also of our Canadian friends on the other side of the St.
  Lawrence. We must join together in generous emulation of the best
  that is done in Europe.... Together we must try to refute what De
  Tocqueville has said about us, that communities such as ours can
  never have a love of pure science.

Andrew White, President of Cornell, said:

  I will confine myself to the value, in our political progress,
  of the spirit and example of some of the scientific workers of
  our day and generation. What is the example which reveals that
  spirit? It is an example of _zeal_, zeal in search for the truth
  ... of _thoroughness_--of the truth sought in its wholeness ... of
  _bravery_, to brave all outcry and menace ... of _devotion_ to duty
  without which no scientific work can be accomplished ... of _faith_
  that truth and goodness are inseparable.

  The reverence for scientific achievement, the revelation of the
  high honors which are in store for those who seek for truth in
  science--the inevitable comparison between a life devoted to
  the great pure search, on the one hand, and a life devoted to
  place-hunting or self-grasping on the other--all these shall come
  to the minds of thoughtful men in lonely garrets of our cities, in
  remote cabins of our prairies, and thereby shall come strength and
  hope for higher endeavor.

Tyndall responded in part as follows:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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From Immigrant to InventorPupin, Michael

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From Immigrant to Inventor

Pupin, Michael

Inventors -- United States -- Biography; Pupin, Michael, 1858-1935

The moral of this experience is, that mental culture is not secured
  by pouring information into passive recipients; it comes from
  stimulating the mind to gather knowledge for itself.... If we would
  fit man properly to cultivate nature ... our earliest teachings
  must be things and not words.

Doctor John William Draper, the world-renowned American investigator of
the laws of radiation from hot bodies, said:

  Nowhere in the world are to be found more imposing political
  problems than those to be settled here; nowhere a greater need
  of scientific knowledge. I am not speaking of ourselves alone,
  but also of our Canadian friends on the other side of the St.
  Lawrence. We must join together in generous emulation of the best
  that is done in Europe.... Together we must try to refute what De
  Tocqueville has said about us, that communities such as ours can
  never have a love of pure science.

Andrew White, President of Cornell, said:

  I will confine myself to the value, in our political progress,
  of the spirit and example of some of the scientific workers of
  our day and generation. What is the example which reveals that
  spirit? It is an example of _zeal_, zeal in search for the truth
  ... of _thoroughness_--of the truth sought in its wholeness ... of
  _bravery_, to brave all outcry and menace ... of _devotion_ to duty
  without which no scientific work can be accomplished ... of _faith_
  that truth and goodness are inseparable.

  The reverence for scientific achievement, the revelation of the
  high honors which are in store for those who seek for truth in
  science--the inevitable comparison between a life devoted to
  the great pure search, on the one hand, and a life devoted to
  place-hunting or self-grasping on the other--all these shall come
  to the minds of thoughtful men in lonely garrets of our cities, in
  remote cabins of our prairies, and thereby shall come strength and
  hope for higher endeavor.

Tyndall responded in part as follows:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

From Immigrant to Inventor

From Immigrant to Inventor

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