THE GOVERNMENT’S CRITICS
Sir,—May I point out to Mr Buttle that the word science has come to have a specialised meaning to-day? The sciences, chemistry, physics, mathematics, etc., are exact, reliable, and within certain limits infallible, though the term “science” is still used in a loose way to signify a number of things which have none of these qualities. These things are not to be neglected or despised; but they cannot work as the sciences work. The chemist understands the laws which govern chemical combination, and he knows that the materials which he works with will obey these laws; but we do not know the laws which govern human combination, nor have we any guarantee that if they were known they would be obeyed.—Yours, etc.. READER. [This correspondence is now closed.— Ed., “The Press.”]
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24149, 7 January 1944, Page 6
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