Volume 28, Number 8 · May 14, 1981
Fascinating Rhythm
By J.Z. Young
The Search for Solutions
by Horace Freeland Judson
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 211 pp., $16.95
It is generally believed that something called Science is an influence that has transformed human life in the last two centuries, but what is the nature of this agency that has such great power? Practicing scientists are often unwilling even to try to define it. If they make the attempt they come up with very different answers according to the type of work that they do. Those who are concerned with fundamental research think of science as discovery and may give a definition quite different from that of technologists. Does science consist in the discovery of new facts and ideas or the application of them in human affairs? And if it is both of these, which comes first? Did navigators discover the compass or was it vice versa?
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