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IT WAS far from my intention to suggest that science, generally, had failed to help in increasing the production of food, and least of all to base such an assertion on official statistics of the average yield of wheat. If Sir John Russell had heard Venn's smashing indictment of official underestimating, delivered last year at Oxford, lie would not tilt at that windmill. All I need plead guilty to is extreme sympathy with the view that the value of science is not merely materialistic; but until this sympathy is more universal than it is now, the unenlightened public will not cease to clamour for more spectacular results than agricultural science, in its ‘slow and painful’ progress, has produced in the last fifty years.
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Science and Food Production. Nature 119, 636 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119636b0
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