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IT has become clear to most thoughtful observers that science itself has reached a crisis no less pregnant than the crisis which developed in the world at large in great measure as the culmination of the rapid and uncontrolled application of mechanical invention and discoveries in physical science. Science is being driven to help to work out a broader philosophy and to combine to make a whole of life or to accept limitations on its own restricted fields of inquiry. The restrictions being imposed under modern dictatorship are merely a foretaste of what will develop more generally, if science does not support reason and assist the other faculties which are needed to establish reason and elaborate a philosophy in which reason is not merely an accident, and understanding, judgment, impartiality, charity as well as tolerance, insight as well as analysis, are absolutely valid.
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BRIGHTMAN, R. The Interpretation of Science. Nature 136, 583 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136583a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136583a0