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SINCE the War, and in the months preceding it, it has been repeatedly urged in these columns that the times demand the maximum use of science and the full recognition by men of science of their social responsibilities. A year before the unstable international situation resolved itself into the present disastrous conflict, pages of NATURE were devoted to statements by the scientific leaders of the country about the urgent need for scientific workers to undertake these responsibilities, but little of practical import has resulted so far. If the War succeeds in arousing certain men of science to a realization of the social implications of their work, then it may be said that some good has come out of it, and it is to be hoped that such will be lasting. Men of science are proving invaluable at the present time; may their value still be recognized when the time for reconstruction comes.
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Men of Science and the War. Nature 146, 107–108 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146107a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146107a0