MARCH OF KNOWLEDGE.
"Great as has been the advance of science in modern days, there has been a tendency in recent years to regard the problems of the origin of matter and of life as beyond its scope and outside its ken," says the Express. "This is a limitation on the possibilities of scientific research which Sir Oliver Lodge declines to accept. "In a lecture the other day the famous scientist described the enormous amount of radiation travelling through space, only an infinitesimal fraction of which is caught by the earth. He declined to believe that all this wealth of radiation could be wasted, and put forward the suggestion than somehow light resulted in the regeneration of matter. Likewise Sir Oliver Lodge commended the efforts of men of science to investigate through physics and chemistry the origin of life. The mind of man, in Sir Oliver's view, is not altogether of a different order from the mind of the Creator. If that is so, its past achievements are the best justification of optimism for the future To parody a famous phrase, Who shall set limits to the march of human |knowledge?"
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Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15360, 8 October 1923, Page 6
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191MARCH OF KNOWLEDGE. Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15360, 8 October 1923, Page 6
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