“It is viewed now as ‘natural’ that the head of NSF be a natural scientist ; that the Office of Science and Technology in the White House will be dominated by natural scientists; that the scientific academies will include only a few social scientists, and so on. But now, as our prime business shifts, physics and chemistry must learn to take a second seat to other sciences, especially biology, physiology and the social sciences”—Amitai Etzioni, chairman of the Department of Sociology at Columbia University, addressing the American Physical Society, New York, February 1, 1971.
