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IN the early years of the Association, a favourite theme in the annual address of the retiring president was the relation between science and religion. To a majority of modern scientists nothing is more dull and fruitless than attempts to make science the handmaid of theology. But there is an aspect of religion with which science is vitally concerned, namely, ethics, and this has been well called “the religion of science”.
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CONKLIN, E. Science and Ethics*. Nature 141, 101–105 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141101a0
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