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THE most striking characteristic of the open conference on "Science in Peace", organized by the Association of Scientific Workers at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on February 17 and 18, was neatly expressed by Prof. J. D. Bernal in his final summing up of the Conference. The content of the fifteen papers submitted in three sessions devoted respectively to "Science and Production" (chairman, Prof. P. M. S. Blackett), "The Future Development of Science" (chairman, Sir Robert Watson Watt) and "Science in Everyday Life" (chairman, Prof. H. Levy) had, he said, had the quite remarkable quality of having been 'orchestrated'. An account of the whole opus will accordingly be attempted here, not by separate discussion of the component movements, but by tracing the leit-motiv which recurred so clearly, inevitably and appropriately through all. They are all familiar themes enough; but their interrelations took new emphasis, and their combined intellectual and emotional appeal was profound. They were expansion, investigation, documentation, publication (the key theme in some expected and some less expected contexts), organization, integration, mechanization, standardization, nationalization.
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Science in Peace. Nature 155, 260–262 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155260a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155260a0