The Real Value Of Science

Scientific Men Can Hardly Escape The Charge Of Ignorance With Regard To The Precise Effect Of The Impact Of Modern Science Upon The Mode Of Living Of The People And Upon Their Civilisation.

Some Of The Beliefs And Legends Bequethed To Us By Antquity Are So Universally And Firmly Established That We Have Become Accustomed To Consider Them As Being Almost As Ancient As Humanity Itself. Nevertheless We Are Tempted To Inquire How Far The Fact That Some Of These Beliefs And Legends Have So Many Features In Common Is Due To Chance, And Wether The Similarity Between Them May Not Point To The Exestience Of An Ancient, Totally Unknown And Unsuspected Civilization Of Which All Other Traces Have Disappeared.

Chemistry Has Been Termed By The Physicist As The Messy Part Of Physics, But That Is No Reason Why The Physicists Should Be Permitted To Make A Mess Of Chemistry When They Invade It.

I Believe That There Have Been Civilisations In The Past That Were Familiar With Atomic Energy, And That By Misusing It They Were Totally Destroyed.

In So Far As Such Developments Utilise The Natural Energy Running To Waste, As In Water Power, They May Be Accounted As Pure Gain. But In So Far As They Consume The Fuel Resources Of The Globe They Are Very Different. The One Is Like Spending The Interest On A Legacy, And The Other Is Like Spending The Legacy Itself. ... [there Is] A Still Hardly Recognised Coming Energy Problem.