A PARADOX

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4490, 15 October 1941, Page 6

A PARADOX

CHANGING THE WORLD. “One of the paradoxes of the present time is that people may be able to change the world so rapidly that they fail to understand what they are

doing. Another is that, while more has been found out at large and in detail about nature and man in the past 30 years than in the whole of history, there is less general appreciation of this knowledge and worse use of it than ever before. This is partly because modern science has become more complex, but as much because it has been professionalised. Since some people are paid to understand it, why should the rest bother their heads about it? But ignorance of science means a failure to understand the factors underlying the critical events of our time. The history of the last few years should have shown that it is no longer optional, but absolutely necessary, for science to be understood, appreciated and effectively used.” Professor J. D. Bernal, of London University, in “World Review.”