SCIENCE, NOT INVENTIONS.
“ National progress,” said Pro fessor Masson in his presidential address to the Science Congress in Sydney, “ indeed the progress of man, depends on the advancement of science ; but I would not be understood to mean by this that all progress is necessarily material. Too often, I think, people take us in this sense; and perhaps it is sometimes our own fault that they non fuse science with usefid invt ntions or processes which result from the application of science to practical problems. These are. of course, important, inevitable, and heartily welcome. But science itself is the true knowledge of the workings of nature, and any new <limp.se of the truth is its ad.ancemem. And who can doubt :hat man's progress on the mental and moral side is as dependent as his material well-being on this search for truth ? Or that it is best from every point of view for the votaries of science, as a rule, to leave practical results*to tak<
care of themselves, and to make the increase of natural knowledge their single aim ’ There is no more fascinating or absorbing quest; none, I venture to say which is governed by so strict an ethical code ; none which does mor at the same time for man’s mental elevation and for his proper humiliation.” *
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 45, 4 February 1911, Page 11
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