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IT is difficult if not impossible to appreciate the potentialities of science in industry or in society, or to assess accurately any plan which science can offer us, apart from the consideration of the relations between science and industry which have developed in the past and as they exist to-day. Nor is this a simple task of history. It is immensely complicated by the dynamic character of both science and industry. Society itself does not change its aspects more completely or rapidly than science or industry under the impact of science. For this reason prediction as to the results of planning industry or society on scientific lines is extremely rash. All that can be said is that the scientific method offers a reasonable chance of arriving at an unprejudiced solution of many of our problems and that its technique is sufficiently elastic to be adapted to the solution of new problems as they arise.
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Scientific Research and Industrial Development. Nature 130, 263–265 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130263a0
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